Royal Collection Department
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The Royal Collection Department is an organisation within the Royal Household tasked with the cataloguing, conservation, cleaning, restoration and display of the books, pictures, sculptures and other works of art collected by the British royal family.
It is headed by a director who oversees the work of three expert advisors:
The activities of the Royal Collection Department are funded by the Royal Collection Trust, established in 1993, which deals with the purchase and sale of works of art, and which holds copyright on the items of the collection. The Prince of Wales is Chairman, and the Lord Chamberlain for the time being is Deputy Chairman.
The Royal Collection Management Committee has control of the operational aspects of collections policy.
Notable officials
- Sir Kenneth Clark, Surveyor of Pictures 1934-1945
- Professor Sir Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of Pictures 1945-1972, and later notoriously exposed as a Soviet agent.