Ballot Archive

13 Feb 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Angus Camperdown Haldane

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA Hons(Classics) University College, Oxford MA Byzantine and Early Renaissance History of Art, Courtauld Institute

Profession or occupation

Art historian and curator; Managing Director, Haldane Fine Art Ltd

Grounds for election

Angus Haldane is a scholar-dealer and the author of a number of distinguished books and exhibition catalogues, notably The Face of War: Portrait of the English Civil Wars (2017); Victor Popov (1932–1974) Genius of the Russian Soul (Somerset House 2014); The Legacy of World War II in Russian Art (Saatchi Gallery 2015); and Art Russe Collections of 20th-century Russian and Soviet Art: War and Peace (Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, 2015); and several articles including a pioneering study of portraits by the Civil War artist Robert Walker (1599–1658). He is fluent in French, Italian and Russian and has recently delivered a series of lectures in the USA for the Royal Oak Foundation on Civil War portraits. His series The Face of War is to be continued with a book on portraits of the American Revolutionary War.

Signatories

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