Martin Clayton

Martin Clayton, LVO, FSA, (born 1967) is Head of Prints and Drawings for Royal Collection Trust at Windsor Castle.

He was educated at King James's School, Knaresborough, and from 1986 to 1990 at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences and History of Art, graduating with a first.

[1] He credits his interest in art to a school trip to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg where he was fascinated by the chisel marks on a sculpture there.

Clayton is the editor of the natural history volumes of the catalogue raisonné of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, the major part of which is held in the Royal Library at Windsor.

[4] Clayton was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2015 New Year's honours list.

The cover of Canaletto in Venice (2005).
Cover of the Aztec Herbal volume of the catalogue raisonné of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum .