Kenneth Clark, Neil MacGregor, Charles Saumarez Smith and currently Nicholas Penny have been Directors of which art museum?
Charles Saumarez Smith MacGregor. In 2007, news broke of a power struggle between Peter Scott, head of the Gallery's board of trustees, and the director; at the same time it became known that Saumarez Smith was applying for the newly created post of Secretary and Chief Executive at the Royal Academy. He resigned from the National Gallery on 26 July 2007, and was succeeded by Martin Wyld, head conservator at the Gallery, as acting director until Nicholas Penny was appointed permanent director in the spring of 2008. In his time at the Royal Academy of Arts, Saumarez Smith has been responsible for restoring
Charles Saumarez Smith is a London book dealer, and was for over forty years the Managing Director of the famous bookshop Heywood Hill. Saumarez Smith has contributed to biographies on Quentin Bell and Philip McCammon Core to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". There are thirteen portraits of Saumarez Smith in the National Portrait Gallery Collection including two photographs by Mario Testino and an oil painting by Tom Phillips. A 2010 painting by Royal Academician Leonard McComb exists. Charles Saumarez Smith Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (born 28 May 1954) is a British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and