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| name = Nicholas Penny

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| nationalitybirth_place = [[United Kingdom|British]]

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'''Sir Nicholas Beaver Penny''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[British Academy|FBA]]}} {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]]}} (born 21 December 1949) is a British [[art historian]]. From 2008 to 2015 he was director of the [[National Gallery]] in [[London]]. He also has three grandchildren.

HisPenny's academic career began with a research fellowship at [[Clare Hall, Cambridge]], after which he went on to teach [[art history]] at [[Manchester University]]. While still in his early thirties, Penny was appointed to the [[Slade Professor of Fine Art|Slade Professorship]] at [[Oxford University]] and to a senior research fellowship at [[King's College, Cambridge]]. He was the co-author, with [[Francis Haskell]], of ''Taste and the Antique'', a study of the formation of the canon of [[classical sculpture]] published in 1984.

Between 1984 and 1989 Penny was keeper of the department of [[Western art]] at the [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Oxford]] and professorial fellow of [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. In 1990 he began a long association with the [[National Gallery]], joining the institution as Clore Curator of Renaissance Painting. Shortly afterwards, in 1991, he identified the ''[[Madonna of the Pinks]]'' belonging to the [[Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland|Duke of Northumberland]] as a genuine [[Raphael]], and not a copy of a lost original as was previously supposed. The painting came to public prominence in 2002 when the Gallery undertook a major fundraising campaign in order to prevent the painting's sale to the [[Getty Center]] in [[Los Angeles]]. Earlier that year Penny made an unsuccessful bid for the directorship of the National Gallery, the post going to [[Charles Saumarez Smith]]. Again in 2002, Penny was appointed senior curator of sculpture at the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Following Saumarez Smith's early resignation from his post, Penny was once again a candidate for heading the London National Gallery, and this time he succeeded. He was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the Queen's [[2015 Birthday Honours]].

*{{cite news |first=Fiona |last=Maddocks |title=The National Gallery finds the right man |newspaper=[[The Evening Standard]] |date=27 November 2007 |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23423289-details/The+National+Gallery+finds+the+right+man/article.do |accessdateaccess-date=2007-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112042550/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23423289-details/The+National+Gallery+finds+the+right+man/article.do |archivedatearchive-date=12 January 2009 |df=dmy-all }}

*{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Jones |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Agent provocateur |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2268237,00.html |work=[[The Guardian]] |publisher= |date=27 March 2008 |accessdateaccess-date=2008-03-27 }}

*{{cite news |first=Charlotte |last=Higgins |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Buy old masters, says new National Gallery head |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2268238,00.html |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=27 March 2008 |accessdateaccess-date=2008-03-27 }}