Surveyor of the King’s Pictures

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The Surveyor of the King’s Pictures was a senior British royal household post responsible for the care, cataloguing, and display of the monarch’s art collection.

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Surveyor of the King’s Pictures canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art administration role
court office
position in the British Royal Household
appliesToJurisdiction British monarchy NERFINISHED
appointedBy the monarch
concerns drawings in the Royal Collection
paintings in the Royal Collection
prints in the Royal Collection
country United Kingdom
employer British monarch NERFINISHED
Royal Household NERFINISHED
field art history
collection management
curatorship
hasAccessTo Royal Collection NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Surveyor of the King’s Pictures and Works of Art NERFINISHED
hasDuties advising on acquisitions of pictures
advising on loans of pictures
ensuring security of the royal picture collection
maintaining records of the royal picture collection
organising the hanging of pictures in royal residences
hasGenderedForm Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures NERFINISHED
hasStatus appointed office
hasWorkContext British royal art patronage
management of state and private royal art collections
hierarchicalLevel senior post
inception 17th century
isFollowedBy Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures NERFINISHED
isPositionHeldBy art historians
senior curators
isPrecededBy Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures NERFINISHED
isSubclassOf Surveyor of the Sovereign’s Pictures NERFINISHED
locationOfWork Royal Collection storerooms NERFINISHED
royal residences
officeHolderTitleDependsOn reigning monarch’s gender
partOf Royal Collection administration NERFINISHED
Royal Household NERFINISHED
responsibleFor advising the monarch on the picture collection
arrangement of exhibitions of royal pictures
care of the monarch’s pictures
cataloguing of the monarch’s pictures
display of the monarch’s pictures
oversight of conservation of royal pictures
usedFor management of the royal picture collection

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Blunt family positionHeld Surveyor of the King’s Pictures
subject surface form: Anthony Blunt