Francis Russell (born 1949) is a British travel writer, historian and art expert.
[1] He was educated at the Dragon School, Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read history.
[4] He advised Gervase Jackson-Stops on the selection of paintings and assisted on the catalogue for the Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and has published discoveries by artists as varied as Fra Angelico, Pontormo and Wright of Derby.
[5] Considered one of the world's leading experts on Early Italian Renaissance gold-ground painting, Russell was a friend and frequent correspondent of Miklós Boskovits and Everett Fahy.
[6] He is also an expert on Italian Seicento and Settecento painting, especially Venetian vedute by artists such as Canaletto and Guardi, and on British eighteenth-century art history.