Starting in April: Jonathan Marsden to Direct the Royal Collection

Posted in the 18th century in the news by Editor on February 24, 2010

As noted in a press release from the Royal Collection:

Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Mr. Jonathan Marsden to the position of Director Designate of the Royal Collection. Mr. Marsden, who is currently Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, will succeed Sir Hugh Roberts as Director of the Royal Collection on Sir Hugh’s retirement in April 2010.

Jonathan Marsden joined the Royal Collection in 1996. He previously worked as a curator for the National Trust in North Wales and Oxfordshire. As Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art he has been responsible for the decorative arts collections in all the royal residences. He has published widely on sculpture, especially French bronzes, and on the history of collecting. He has contributed to a number of exhibitions at The Queen’s Gallery in London, including George III and Queen Charlotte in 2004.

He is currently working on an exhibition about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which opens at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace in March 2010.

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Jane Roberts (ed.), George III and Queen Charlotte; Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste (The Royal Collection, 2004), ISBN: 1902163737.

Jonathan Marsden, ed., The Wisdom of George the Third:
Papers from a Symposium at the Queen’s Gallery,
Buckingham Palace (Royal Collection, 2006), ISBN:
978-1902163727.