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{{short description|British art historian (born 1949)}}
{{for|the Dean of Lichfield|Nicholas Penny (priest)}}
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| name = Nicholas Penny
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|12|21|df=y}}
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| alma_mater = {{Nowrap|[[St Catharine's College, Cambridge]]<br>[[The Courtauld Institute of Art]]}}
| spouse = Mary Crettier▼
| employer = [[Clare Hall, Cambridge]]<br>[[Manchester University]]<br>[[Oxford University]]<br>[[King's College, Cambridge]]<br>[[Ashmolean Museum]]<br>[[Balliol College, Oxford]]<br>[[National Gallery]]<br>[[National Gallery of Art]]
| nationality = British
| occupation = [[Art historian]]
▲| spouse = Mary Crettier
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==Early life==
Penny was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]] before he studied English at [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Nicholas Penny {{!}} Directors {{!}} National Gallery, London|url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/organisation/director/sir-nicholas-penny|access-date=2018-03-06|website=www.nationalgallery.org.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-01-03|title=Breakfast with the FT: Nicholas Penny|url=https://www.ft.com/content/a9fe6d34-699e-11e3-89ce-00144feabdc0|access-date=2020-11-08|website=www.ft.com|language=en-GB}}</ref> He then studied for a doctorate at [[The Courtauld Institute of Art]] in London, where he was taught by [[Michael Kitson]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Questionnaire: Nicholas Penny {{!}} Frieze|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/questionnaire-nicholas-penny|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Frieze|language=en}}</ref> While a student at the Courtauld, Penny contributed photographs to the Art & Architecture section of the Conway Library collection.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=Who made the Conway Library?|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Digital Media}}</ref>
==Career==
Between 1984 and 1989 Penny was keeper of the department of [[Western art]] at the [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Oxford]] and
During his time as Director, Penny worked with the [[National Galleries of Scotland]] to help secure for the nation two of Titian's paintings: ''[[Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon]]'' and ''[[Diana and Callisto]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2014-06-23|title=Nicholas Penny Steps Down from London's National Gallery|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nicholas-penny-steps-down-from-londons-national-gallery-46369|access-date=2020-11-08|website=artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref> He also oversaw the Gallery's first major acquisition of an American painting, ''[[Men of the Docks]]'' by [[George Bellows]].<ref name=":0" /> The Gallery broke its record attendance under Penny's leadership, exceeding six million visitors in 2013.<ref name=":0" /> In June 2014, Penny announced his retirement from the National Gallery after six years as Director.<ref name=":0" /> He retired in 2015, and was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the Queen's [[2015 Birthday Honours]].
Penny is a regular contributor to ''[[The Burlington Magazine]]'' and the ''[[London Review of Books]]''. He has also published books, exhibition catalogues, and articles on picture frames and Italian Renaissance painting, and on Raphael, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Richard Payne Knight.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nicholas Penny|url=https://www.nga.gov/press/biographies/bios-penny.html|access-date=2020-11-08|website=www.nga.gov}}</ref>
==References==▼
== Personal life ==
Penny has twin daughters.
== Bibliography ==
* ''Church Monuments in Romantic England'' (Yale University Press, 1977). {{ISBN|978-0300020755}}.
* ''Taste and the Antique: Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500–1900'' (co-author: [[Francis Haskell]], Yale University Press, New Ed. 1982). {{ISBN|978-0300029130}}.
* ''Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day'', 3 vols. (Clarendon Press, 1992). {{ISBN|978-0199513567}}.
* ''The Materials of Sculpture'' (Yale University Press, new Ed. 1995). {{ISBN|978-0300065817}}.
▲== References ==
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==Sources==
*{{cite news |first=Fiona |last=Maddocks |title=The National Gallery finds the right man |newspaper=[[
*{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Jones
*{{cite news |first=Charlotte |last=Higgins
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060909052036/http://www.nga.gov/press/2002/releases/nga_staff/penny.shtm 2002 press release from the National Gallery of Art on Penny's appointment as Senior Curator of Sculpture]
*[http://web.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/index.asp Balliol College News mentioning quondam fellowship of the college and appointment to the National Gallery]
*[http://www.pubhist.com/author/1712/nicholas-penny Overview of publications]
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