Reviewing Committee Members

Andrew Hochhauser KC (Chairman)

Andrew Hochhauser is a KC at Essex Court Chambers, a Deputy High Court Judge, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Honorary Counsel to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He specialises in commercial and employment litigation. As well as an LLM from the LSE, he has an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he studied British Modernism.

He is a former Trustee of the V&A, a Bencher and (in 2021) the former Treasurer of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, Chair of the Samuel Courtauld Trust and an ex officio member of the Board of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Chair of Paintings in Hospitals (until January 2023), a Governor of the University of the Arts London, a Trustee of the National AIDS Trust, the V&A Foundation, the Aurora Orchestra, Orchestra for the Earth and a Director of Ensemble Plus Ultra. He was Chair of Dance Umbrella from 2007-2014 and thereafter a Governor of the Central School of Ballet. He is currently on the Board of Ballet Black.

Appointed 17 September 2022: appointment expires 16 September 2026

Christopher Baker

Christopher Baker is currently the Paul Mellon Rome Fellow and holds a number of non-executive roles and Trusteeships. He formerly served as Director of European and Scottish Art and Portraiture at the National Galleries of Scotland, where he was responsible for the collection and programme at the National Gallery and Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art and before moving to Scotland in 2002 worked at Christ Church, Oxford, and the National Gallery in London. Christopher is a member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel, the Recognition Committee (Museums Galleries Scotland) and the Advisory Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UKRI).

He has organised numerous exhibitions in the U.K. and internationally on aspects of British art pre-1900, drawings and watercolours, and old master paintings. His publications include: Fuseli, The Realm of Dreams and the Fantastic (2022, co-author);  J. M.W. Turner: The Vaughan Bequest (2018); Landseer: The Monarch of the Glen (2017); Jean-Étienne Liotard (2015, co-author); John Ruskin: Artist and Observer (2014, co-author); Catalogue of English Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900, National Gallery of Scotland (2011); Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe, c.1500-1800 (2003, co-editor); and The National Gallery [London] Complete Illustrated Catalogue, (1995, co-author).

Appointed 1 October 2019: appointment expires 30 September 2027

Mark Hallett

Professor Mark Hallett is Director Designate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he’ll be succeeding Professor Deborah Swallow as Märit Rausing Director in August 2023. Hallett’s scholarly research has focused on British art from the seventeenth century onwards. The many books he has written and edited include the prize-winning Reynolds: Portraiture in Action (2014). Hallett also co-edited the major online publication, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 (2018). Professor Hallett has also been involved in curating numerous exhibitions. These have included the 2007 Tate Britain exhibition Hogarth, the 2015 Wallace Collection exhibition Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint and two 2018 exhibitions: the Royal Academy exhibition The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition and the Yale Center for British Art’s George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field.Hallett has been the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and a Mellon Senior Fellowship. He has been Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge (2013–14) and a Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2014–16).

Appointed 13 August 2021: appointment expires on 12 August 2025

Helen Jacobsen

Dr Helen Jacobsen is Executive Director of The Attingham Trust, a charitable educational trust that organizes study programmes on historic houses for professionals in the heritage sector.  Formerly Senior Curator and Curator of 18^th-century Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection, where she was responsible for furniture, porcelain, clocks, gilt bronze and gold boxes, she has curated exhibitions and published on eighteenth-century decorative art and collecting history. She is a member of the Council of the French Porcelain Society and of the Grants Committee of the Furniture History Society, and is a trustee of the Leche Trust. 

Appointed 1 September 2023: appointment expires on 31 August 2027

Stuart Lochhead

In 2018 Stuart set up his own firm dealing in European Sculpture from the late Medieval period to Rodin based in St James’s, London and has since sold a number of works of sculpture to US and UK museums. Upon graduating from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1994 Stuart Lochhead joined Daniel Katz at his newly opened gallery in Jermyn Street. In the following years Stuart mounted numerous exhibitions in New York and London on European Sculpture.

He organised three major loan exhibitions at the gallery on Renaissance and Baroque bronzes from The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Stuart was formerly on the board of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, The Sculpture Journal and Chairman of the Courtauld Association. Stuart organised the first gift by a UK company to a museum through the Cultural Gifts Scheme and has been an independent assessor to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art.

Appointed 1 October 2019: appointment expires 30 September 2027

Tim Pestell

Tim Pestell is the Senior Curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, part of Norfolk Museums Service. He studied Archaeology at Cambridge followed by a PhD at the University of East Anglia, looking at the foundation of medieval monasteries in East Anglia and then worked professionally in field archaeology across the UK before becoming a curator. Pestell is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and has served as board member on various bodies including the Treasure Valuation Committee for ten years, Bury St Edmunds cathedral’s Diocesan Advisory Committee and various local and national archaeological society committees.

Appointed 13 August 2021: appointment expires on 12 August 2025

Caroline Shenton

Dr Caroline Shenton is an archivist, historian and writer. She has a degree in medieval history from the University of St Andrews and a doctorate on the court culture of Edward III from Worcester College, Oxford, and qualified as an archivist and records manager at University College London. She was a senior archivist at the National Archives from 1993 and then moved to the Parliament Archives in 1999, becoming its Director in 2008. Since 2017 she has been Secretary to Council at Girton College, Cambridge. Caroline has been a member of various technical and policy committees relating to archives at both national and international level, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. She is an accredited Arts Society lecturer, and for eight years taught Public History to postgraduate archivists at the Centre for Archives and Information Studies at the University of Dundee. As well a number of academic and professional publications, Caroline is also the author of three acclaimed popular books on heritage in peril: The Day Parliament Burned Down (OUP, 2012) which won the Political Book of the Year Award in 2013, Mr Barry’s War (2016), and National Treasures. Saving the Nation’s Art in World War II (John Murray, 2021). 

Appointed 1 September 2023: appointment expires on 31 August 2027

Pippa Shirley

Pippa Shirley read History at Oxford before an MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London. She worked in publishing as a Commissioning Editor for the Grove Dictionary of Art, then went to the British Museum as a curator in the then Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities. In 1992 she moved to the V&A as a curator in Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery Department, specialising in decorative ironwork and English and continental silver, working on three major gallery projects to redisplay the National Collections of ironwork and silver.

In 2000 she came to Waddesdon Manor as Head of Collections, where she leads the curatorial team responsible for the contents of one of the most important National Trust properties in the country, home to a spectacular ensemble of continental decorative arts and English, French and Netherlandish paintings created by four generations of the Rothschild family. In 2015 oversight of the Gardens was added to her role. As of 2020 she is Director of Collections, Gardens and Historic Properties. The Manor is managed today by a charitable trust, The Rothschild Foundation, under the direction of Lord Rothschild. She has published

and lectured on a range of subjects. She also represents Waddesdon across

different media channels for both press and marketing and in her curatorial role.

Appointed 15 October 2018: appointment expires 14 October 2026.