Jon James Lamont Whiteley (19 February 1945 – 16 May 2020)[1] was a Scottish child film actor and in adult life a distinguished art historian.
He wrote his doctorate on the revival in painting of themes inspired by antiquity in mid-nineteenth-century France.
He catalogued all the French Drawings in the Ashmolean, and authored and co-authored several books on artists including Ingres, Puvis de Chavannes and Claude Lorrain.
He published a book on the Ashmolean's Stringed Instruments in 2009, and was working on a catalogue of the later French paintings in the Museum.
His wife was art historian Linda Whiteley; the couple had two children.