Rosalind Savill Author

Rosalind Savill, DBE, FBA, FSA, was Director of the Wallace Collection, London, from 1992-2011, and is a specialist in French decorative arts, especially Sèvres porcelain on which she has published widely. Her major publication, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols, 1988, won her the National Art-Collection Fund prize for Scholarship in 1990. She was appointed CBE for Services to the Study of Ceramics in 2000, won the European Woman of Achievement Award (Arts and Media) in 2005, was appointed DBE for Services to the Arts in 2009, and was appointed an Officier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, in 2014. She co-curated the exhibition The Art of Love: Madame de Pompadour at the Wallace Collection in 2002, and since then has continued to study Mme de Pompadour and Sèvres porcelain.