Philip Michael Rivers Pouncey, CBE, FBA (15 February 1910 – 12 November 1990) was an English art historian, connoisseur and curator.
Born on 15 February 1910,[1] Pouncey was the son of a priest; his elder brother Denys was a noted musician who served as organist and master of the choristers at Wells Cathedral from 1936 to 1970.
[1] Pouncey volunteered at the Fitzwilliam Museum before working as an assistant keeper at the National Gallery from 1934 to 1945.
[2] While there, he worked with Arthur Popham on the Catalogue of Italian Drawings in the British Museum, XIV–XV Centuries, which was published in 1950.
[2] He died on 12 November 1990; he was survived by his wife, Myril, herself a noted art historian with whom he collaborated, and their two children.