/ Person - Sir Timothy Peter Plint Clifford
Sir Timothy Peter Plint Clifford
(1946-), Art historian; Director of the National Galleries of Scotland
Director of the National Galleries of Scotland since 1984. Director of Manchester City Art Galleries from 1978 until 1984, where he began his career as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Paintings in 1968. Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum from 1976 until 1978.
by Lucy Anne Dickens
C-type colour print, June 2001
NPG P948(9)
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