Brian Allen (art historian)

{{Short description|British art historian}}

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Brian Francis Allen (born October 1952){{Cite web |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/qKgzqcR1apWp9lUoGxHTO7F4B74/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Brian Francis ALLEN - Personal Appointments |access-date=2021-05-22}}{{cite web |title=Allen, Brian, 1952- |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85157945.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=January 6, 2021}} is Chairman of the Hazlitt Group that includes the art dealership Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox and Arnold Wiggins and Sons, the leading dealers in historic picture frames.

He was Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art between 1993 and 2012. He is a specialist in 17th- and 18th-century British art and has written widely on this subject area. He has organised a number of exhibitions in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, the State Hermitage Museum and the State Kremlin Museums. A past Chairman of the National Art Collections Fund he was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery between 2012 and 2015,{{Citation | title = THE PRIME MINISTER APPOINTS DR BRIAN ALLEN TO THE BOARD OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY | publisher = Department for Culture, Media and Sport | date = July 2012 | url = https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/86474/PA_NPG_B-Allen.pdf | access-date = 11 July 2016}} the Holburne Museum of Art, the Strawberry Hill Collections Trust, the British Sporting Art Trust and is a trustee of the Hermitage Foundation UK and the Ben Uri Gallery.Rosalie Jovanovic, "Mark Hallett to Be Director of Studies at Paul Mellon Centre", http://observer.com/2012/08/mark-hallett-to-be-director-of-studies-at-paul-mellon-centre, accessed 1 August 2012International Advisory Board, Ben Uri Gallery, http://benuri.org.uk/about-us/international-advisory-board/