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The Prime Minister has appointed Professor Dame Carol Black DBE and Dr Rosalind P Blakesley to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery for a period of four years from 8 March 2010.

Biographical Details

Professor Dame Carol Black is the National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor at the University of Bristol. She is the immediate past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, and has recently stepped down as Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital, London is internationally renowned in the field of connective tissue diseases. Since the early-1990s she has worked at board level in a number of organisations, including the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, the Health Foundation, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, and the Imperial College Healthcare Charity. She recently served as Chairman of the UK Health Honours Committee, and is now serving on the Committee for the Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service, as well as several national committees aiming to improve healthcare. She is a Foreign Affiliate of the Institute of Medicine USA, and has been awarded many honorary degrees and fellowships.

Dr Rosalind P Blakesley is a senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. She is a specialist in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and in the art of Imperial Russia. Her publications include Russian Art and the West: a Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture and the Decorative Arts (co-editor and contributor, 2007); The Arts and Crafts Movement (2006); An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (co-editor and contributor, 2003); and Russian Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century (under her maiden name of Rosalind P. Gray, 2000). She is now working on a new book entitled Painting and Patronage in Imperial Russia: Creating a National School, 1757-1881, for which she has been granted a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2009-2010. Dr Blakesley has advised on major exhibitions including International Arts and Crafts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2005; An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC in 2003; and A Style of Life, A Style of Art: National Romantic Movements in European Art at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow in 1998. She was also the curator of Images of Persuasion, an exhibition of Soviet Posters at the Barbican Centre, London in 1993.

Notes to Editors

The National Portrait Gallery was looking for someone with art and cultural history expertise and someone with science and engineering expertise. The Gallery holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain’s architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history.

The Board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery has statutory duties under the National Portrait Gallery Act 1963 and Museums and Galleries Act 1992 for the general management and control of the Museum and for the appointment of the director. The posts are not remunerated. Reasonable expenses can be claimed. The appointments have been made in accordance with the OCPA Code of Practice. Appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. Professor Dame Carol Black and Dr Rosalind Blakesley have not undertaken any significant political activity in the UK during the past five years.

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