included a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant of £12.7 million. He presided over the exhibition programme including Anish Kapoor, Bronze, Sensing Spaces, Anselm Kiefer and the 2012 blockbuster David Hockney, the Bigger Picture which was the most visited exhibition of that year in the UK. In 2014 Saumarez Smith appointed White Cube exhibition curator and broadcaster Tim Marlow as the first Director of Artistic Programmes. Saumarez Smith is a former Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, a Trustee of Charleston and the Royal Drawing School, an enthusiastic blogger, and in the past an occasional panellist on the BBC's Newsnight Review. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours. In 2019 Saumarez Smith became the first Professor of Architectural History at the Royal Academy. Bibliography The Art Museum in Modern Times. Thames & Hudson (2021) East London. Thames & Hudson (2017) New Annals of The Club. Pony Club, (2014) The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Bloomsbury / Modern Art Press (15 October 2012) The National Gallery: A Short History. Frances Lincoln (1 July 2009) The National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery Publications (27 June 1997) The Rise of Design: Design and Domestic Interior in Eighteenth-century England. Pimlico; New Ed edition (2000) Eighteenth-Century Decoration. Design and the Domestic Interior in England. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1993) The Building of Castle Howard. Faber & Faber; 1st ed edition (5 March 1990) Saumarez Smith has contributed to biographies on Quentin Bell and Philip McCammon Core to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Portraits 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. References External links 1954 births Living people English art historians British curators Directors of the National Gallery, London Directors of the National Portrait Gallery, London People from Wiltshire People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of the Warburg Institute Harvard University faculty Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Academics of Queen Mary University of London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford) Knights Bachelor