Ballot Archive

27 Jun 2024

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Caroline de Guitaut

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA(Hons), AMA, LVO

Profession or occupation

Curator

Grounds for election

Surveyor of The King’s Works of Art, Royal Collection Trust (2023-present). RCT Curator since 1992. Head of one of three curatorial departments of Royal Collection Trust, with responsibility for the presentation, conservation, research and display of over 700,000 works of decorative art in the Royal Collection. The collection is located in 15 royal and former royal residences and comprises furniture, sculpture, arms and armour, tapestries, textiles and fashion, metalwork, ceramics and jewellery including the Crown Jewels. Curatorial specialism in Fabergé and Russian decorative art, jewellery, textiles and fashion together with royal collectors and their collections and the historic display of the Royal Collection within the royal palaces and residences. Numerous exhibitions, catalogues, other publication and lectures. Trustee: The Hermitage Foundation UK (2019-) The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust (2020-) Royal School of Needlework (2013-2021)

Signatories

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