Robert Wenley has been the deputy director and head of Collections at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham since 2010. He was previously a curator at the Wallace Collection, London, and for Glasgow Museums, with responsibilities including the major collection of Spanish paintings at Pollok House. He has published extensively on the history of Collecting in Britain and France, most recently on the taste for the paintings of Jan de Beer in England, in the catalogue of his exhibition, ‘Truly Bright and Memorable’: Jan de Beer’s Renaissance Altarpieces (Barber Institute, 2019).