10 Facts About Cecil Gould

Cecil Hilton Monk Gould was a British art historian and curator who specialised in Renaissance painting.

Cecil Gould was a former Keeper and deputy director of the National Gallery in London.

Cecil Gould was educated at Kingswood House preparatory school, near Epsom, and then at Westminster School.

Cecil Gould was Keeper and deputy director for the last five years of his tenure.

Cecil Gould was a prolific author, publishing many books and articles during his career.

In 1970, Cecil Gould established that the National Gallery's Portrait of Pope Julius II was the prime version by Raphael and not a copy, as had previously been thought.

Cecil Gould was responsible for a new attribution of a work to Michelangelo.

Towards the end of his life, with his health declining, Cecil Gould was made a correspondant of the Institut de France.

Cecil Gould developed a brain tumour and, after a short illness, died on 7 April 1994.

Cecil Gould was portrayed during his childhood in the 2000 Channel 4 television drama about John Harrison's chronometers, Longitude.