Hugh Brigstocke was curator of Italian, French and Spanish paintings at the National Gallery of Scotland (1968–83); later senior Old Masters expert at Sotheby’s, London (1989–95). He has also worked widely in publishing as editor in chief of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1983–87) and editor of the Oxford Companion to Western Art (1995–2001) and the Journal of the Walpole Society (2000–12). In 2015 he was the author of a Walpole Society volume dedicated entirely to British Travellers in Spain from 1766 to 1849; and more recently, with Odette D’Albo, the monograph Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Life and Work (2020).