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{{for|the Dean of Lichfield|Nicholas Penny (priest)}}
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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.
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 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>
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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 |title=Agent provocateur |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2268237,00.html |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=27 March 2008 |accessdate=2008-03-27 }}
*{{cite news |first=Charlotte |last=Higgins |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 |accessdate=2008-03-27 }}
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