Tours & Study Days With

Rosalind Savill

Rosalind Savill became Director of the Wallace Collection, London, in 1992 and retired in 2011. She is a specialist in French 18th-century decorative arts, especially Sèvres porcelain, and her major publication, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, won her the National Art-Collection Fund prize for Scholarship in 1990.  She has Visiting Professorships at  the University of Buckingham and the University of the Arts, London. She won the European Woman of Achievement Award (Arts and Media) 2005, was a Member of the Conseil d’Administration at Sèvres Cité de la Céramique, is President of the French Porcelain Society, and her Trusteeships include the Royal Collection Trust, the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust and the Samuel Courtauld Trust; she is also a Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and on the Academic Committee of the Rothschild Foundation at Waddesdon Manor. Currently she is working on Madame de Pompadour’s Sèvres collection.