Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart

Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart (born 14 May 1961) is a British art historian, and former head of old master paintings at Christie's in New York, where he worked from 1991 until 2006. He is now an independent art dealer in London, specializing in Old Master Paintings. Early life He is the younger son of the former Beatrice Nicola Grace Weld-Forester and John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute; as such, he is styled as a lord. He is also the heir presumptive to his nephew, the 8th Marquess. His elder brother was John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, a prominent race-car driver. He is a descendant of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard and Beatrice Mills Forbes, an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston and the Schuyler families from New York. He was educated at Ampleforth College and St Chad's College, Durham University.