Richard Calvocoressi
Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi is a British museum and gallery curator and art historian.
Career
Calvocoressi was born in Westerham, Kent, one of three sons of Major Ion Calvocoressi, MBE, MC and Katherine, née Kennedy. He was educated at Eton College, Brooke House, Market Harborough, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He served as an assistant keeper of modern art at the Tate Gallery from 1979 until 1987, and was director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from 1987 until 2007. He then served as director of the Henry Moore Foundation, and in 2015 became a senior curator at the Gagosian Gallery.Calvocoressi was appointed to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on 13 November 2012, serving until 12 November 2016. He was subsequently reappointed for another four-year term.
Personal life
He married Francesca Temple Roberts in 1976. They have three children.He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 Birthday Honours for "services to the Arts, particularly in Scotland".