Pamela Tudor-Craig

Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA (née Wynn-Reeves; 26 June 1928 – 5 December 2017) was a British medieval art historian.

Tudor-Craig was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, gaining a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1952.

She was determined to catalogue their entire collection of paintings, a task that took nearly six decades, helped by Bernard Nurse, Jill Franklin and other fellows.

While teaching at USIU she arranged private tours for the students of many great buildings including Blenheim Palace and St Paul's Cathedral in London.

[3] She believed that the accepted image of Richard III as a villain was as a result of Tudor efforts to rebrand him, and showed that some of his portraits had been altered by 'Tudor propaganda'.

[1] Outside of academia she is best known for her contribution to the 1986 TV series The Secret Life of Paintings and the accompanying book of the same name, co-authored with Richard Foster.

[4] Tudor-Craig also participated in the BBC's 1976 series Second Verdict and ITV's 1984 production The Trial of Richard III.

She sat on cathedral committees, including Wells; and was chair of the Sussex Historic Churches Trust from 2002 to 2010, following which she was elected Honorary President and Life Fellow.

[1][6] Photographs by Tudor-Craig are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art and are currently being digitised.

One Half of Our Noblest Art: Study of the Sculptures of Wells West Front.