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Francis Watson (art historian)

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Sir Francis John Bagott Watson, KCVO FBA (24 August 1907 – 27 September 1992) was a British art historian.

Education

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Watson was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge.

Career

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Watson served as Director of the Wallace Collection from 1963 to 1974, and as Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art from 1963 to 1972.[1]

Watson was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, 1969–70.

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