Andrew Michael Jaffé CBE (3 June 1923 – 13 July 1997) was a British art historian and curator.
Jaffé's undergraduate studies were delayed for four years by World War II, during which time he served in the RNVR.
He came up to King's College, Cambridge in 1945, studying History before changing to English, in which subject he gained a First.
After Cambridge, he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute, where he attended Johannes Wilde's lectures and had access to the Seilern Collection; this was followed by research at Harvard on Rubens and his contemporaries.
[2] He became a Fellow of King's College in 1952, holding the position until his death; was appointed as Cambridge University's only Assistant Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1956; and began undergraduate teaching in the subject.