Alumni
Many students of the Courtauld have gone on to become directors of major museums, including John Hayes (National Portrait Gallery, 1974–94), Anne d'Harnoncourt (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982–2008), Neil MacGregor (National Gallery, 1987–2002; British Museum 2002–), Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate, 1988–), Sir Mark Jones (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001–11), Nicholas Penny (National Gallery, 2008–), Kaywin Feldman (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2008–), David Franklin (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010–) and Thomas P. Campbell (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009–).
Art historians of note who have trained there include the Renaissance specialist John Shearman, Marxist art historian T. J. Clark and the feminist art historian Griselda Pollock. William J. R. Curtis, architectural historian and author of Modern Architecture Since 1900, is also a notable alumnus; as is the great Van Dyck scholar, Sir Oliver Millar. The critics Reyner Banham, Brian Sewell, Andrew Graham-Dixon and Tim Marlow are also graduates of the Courtauld.
The artists Jeremy Deller (winner of the 2004 Turner Prize) and Jeff Wall are also alumni. Writers who have studied there include the Booker Prize-winning Anita Brookner, the novelist Iain Sinclair and the travel writers Michael Jacobs and Roger Took. The horror film star Vincent Price was an alumnus, and Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan and Narisa Levy, of the royal family of Thailand also studied there.
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