Hugh Belsey

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester which he followed with a post-graduate diploma in art gallery and museum studies.

He earned an MLitt in fine arts from the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, where he specialised in the Grand Tour and the collecting of George, 3rd Earl Cowper.

[1] He has been a senior research fellow at the Yale Center for British Art during which time he worked upon compiling the catalogue raisonné[2] of the portraits by Thomas Gainsborough published in February 2019.

[3] He has also taught a museum course at the University of Buckingham and is known also for his annual lecture series on British art which he delivers in different Suffolk venues.

in which he authenticated two previously unattributed works, a landscape and a portrait of Joseph Gape, as being by Thomas Gainsborough.