Francis Watson (art historian)
Sir Francis John Bagott Watson, KCVO FBA (24 August 1907 – 27 September 1992) was a British art historian.
Education
[edit]Watson was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge.
Career
[edit]Watson served as Director of the Wallace Collection from 1963 to 1974, and as Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art from 1963 to 1972.[1]
Watson was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, 1969–70.
References
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Categories:
- 1907 births
- 1992 deaths
- British art historians
- Surveyors of the Queen's Works of Art
- People educated at Shrewsbury School
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford)
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Fellows of the British Academy
- 20th-century British historians