The Trustees
Frances Carey – Chair / Trust
Arts and Heritage consultant, formerly Senior Consultant for Public Engagement, Head of National Programmes and Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum from 1975-2011. Author of publications relating to the British Museum’s collections and other subjects. Appointed to the Board of the MLvM Charitable Trust by the Charity Commission in 2006.
Sean Rainbird
Director of the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart since 2006.
Assistant Keeper then Senior Curator at Tate 1987-2006.
He is a specialist in German 20th century art, organising exhibitions on, among others, Max Beckmann, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Wassily Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter.
He was one of the founding trustees of the MLvM Charitable Trust in 1992.
David Scrase
Assistant Director, Collections 2003 and Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge since 1984; Keeper of Paintings and Drawings 1982-84, Assistant Keeper of Paintings and Drawings 1976-1982.
Educated at Westminster School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Chinese. Scholar on the Sotheby’s training scheme, he worked for the Sadlers Wells Opera and Dame Margot Fonteyn before joining the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum. Transferred to the Department of Coins & Medals and then moved to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1976. Author of exhibition catalogues relating to the Fitzwilliam’s and other collections. Author of the Catalogue of Italian Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2011. He was one of the founding trustees of the MLvM Charitable Trust in 1992.
Keir McGuinness
Keir was educated at Lymm Grammar School, Cheshire. The University of Liverpool and Nottingham & Trent Law School.
Keir is a management consultant who for the past 10 years has specialised in working with Galleries and artists. Formerly a company and commercial lawyer with 25 years experience of working with retail clients, Keir, amongst other things, is a Trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and was Chair at the time of its building refurbishment, is a former Chair of the Patrons of New Art at Tate Britain and a Turner Prize juror. Keir is also a trustee of The Felix Trust and is a Patron of the British Museum and the Royal Academy Schools and is a member of the George Beaumont Group at the National Gallery London.”