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Brian Sewell, born 1931, is an art critic, writing for the London Evening Standard. He has been described as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic".[1]
The illegitimate son of the composer Peter Warlock,[2][3] who died seven months before he was born, Sewell was brought up in Kensington, London, and was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead. Offered a place to read history at Oxford,[4] Sewell chose instead to enter the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where he was tutored by Anthony Blunt and became his close friend. Sewell graduated in 1957 and worked at Christie's auction house, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. After leaving Christie's he became an art dealer. He completed his National Service] as an officer in the Royal Army Service Corps.
He was listed under "National Treasures" in the Pink List 2013.
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- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/nov/13/art Rachel Cooke. "We pee on things and call it art". Guardian, 13 November 2005
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2061187/When-art-critic-Brian-Sewell-set-truth-father-hed-known-uncovered-sinister-story.html Brian Sewell "Why I will never love my father", Daily Mail, 14 November 2011
- ↑ Richard Brooks "Sewell's father was sex-sadist composer", The Sunday Times, 13 November 2011
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0134z00