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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]].
Penny was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]] and [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge]], before undertaking his postgraduate studies at the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]] in London. His 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.
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