Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón (1891–1971) was a Spanish art historian, who from 1960 to 1968 was Director of the Museo del Prado.
[1] He was also attached to the Centro de Estudios Históricos (now Instituto Diego Velázquez of the Spanish National Research Council), and was for some years the editor-in-chief of the journal Archivo Español de Arte.
[1] In 1929 he curated an exhibition of the work of Anton Raphael Mengs at the Prado.
[3] During the Spanish Civil War he was active in conserving the Prado's collections.
[2] In 1951 he received the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (Grand Cross).