John Arthur Giles Gere, FBA, FSA (7 October 1921 – 11 January 1995) was an English art historian and curator.
In 1939, he joined the British Army, but was forced to leave for health reasons and attended Balliol College, Oxford, from 1940 to 1943; he read English under John Bryson,[1] achieved a third and received his BA in 1945.
[2] After a short spell of voluntary work at the Tate Gallery, Gere enrolled at the Courtauld Institute of Art but left after only a term of study.
[4] His early work the revolved around assisting Arthur E. Popham and Philip Pouncey compile a catalogue of the British Museum's 14th- and 15th-century Italian drawings, which was published in 1950.
With Pouncey, he co-authored Artists Working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640 (1983), and with Nicholas Turner he wrote Drawings by Raphael in English Collections (1983).