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Christopher Brown (museum director)

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in Oxford in 1998 and it was largely due to him that the museum, especially the front part, was rebuilt.
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He has also had articles published in a number of journals, including
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Dutch Townscape Painting (Themes and painters in the National Gallery)
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Dutch Townscape Painting (Themes and painters in the National Gallery)
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Scenes of Everyday Life – Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
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This biographical article about a British art historian is a
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and joined civil aviation in the post war period, flying for
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Flemish Paintings (The National Gallery schools of painting)
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Carel Fabritius – Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonne
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People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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Index

Christopher Brown (artist)
CBE

Tangier International Zone
Tangier
Morocco
Museum director
University of Oxford
CBE
art historian
director
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Tangier
World War II
Gibraltar Airways
British European Airways
Merchant Taylors' School
public school
St Catherine's College, Oxford
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Courtauld Institute of Art
Doctor of Philosophy
National Gallery
Ashmolean Museum
Prix Pictet
New Year Honours

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