Christopher Hamilton Lloyd CVO (born 30 June 1945)[1] is a British art historian and was Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures (1988–2005).
[2] Lloyd worked in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for twenty years.
[2] In 1972, he was appointed to a fellowship at Harvard University's Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, in Florence, Italy.
Working to the Director of the Royal Collection, Lloyd had overall curatorial responsibility for some 7,000 oil paintings and 3,000 miniatures.
Lloyd retired as Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures in July 2005 and was succeeded by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.