# Denys Sutton

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'''Denys Miller Sutton''' (10 August 1917 – 30 January 1991) was a British art critic and historian known for his focus on European artists before 1800 ([Old Masters](/source/Old_Masters)) and [Asian art](/source/Asian_art).  He was art critic for the ''Financial Times'' and editor of ''[Apollo](/source/Apollo_(magazine))'' magazine.<ref name=NT1 />

== Biography ==
The son of Edmund Miller Sutton (son of Thomas Miller Sutton, a pawnbroker and jeweller, of [Victoria Street, London](/source/Victoria_Street%2C_London)) who worked for the family business, [Suttons & Robertsons](/source/Suttons_%26_Robertsons), and Dulcie Laura (nee Wheeler),<ref>Weekly Telegraph, Saturday, 30 December 1933</ref><ref name=NT1>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/01/obituaries/denys-sutton-73-an-art-critic-editor-and-curator-of-exhibitions.html | title=Denys Sutton, 73, an Art Critic, Editor and Curator of Exhibitions | date=1 February 1991 | first=John | last=Russell | newspaper=The New York Times | accessdate=20 November 2018 }}</ref> Sutton was educated at [Uppingham](/source/Uppingham_School) and [Exeter College, Oxford](/source/Exeter_College%2C_Oxford), receiving a B.A. and B.Litt.<ref name=NT1 />

Sutton worked for the [Foreign Office](/source/Foreign_Office) Research Department from 1940–46, then appointed Secretary of the International Commission for Restitution of Cultural Material. In 1948 he was named [UNESCO](/source/UNESCO)'s Fine Arts specialist. He visited [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) in 1949 as a lecturer, then worked as art sales correspondent and a book reviewer for ''[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)'', as well as art critic for the ''[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)'' and [Country Life](/source/Country_Life_(magazine)) magazine. In 1962 the Financial Times management appointed him editor of Apollo magazine; during his years of service, he greatly improved the magazine's reputation and increased profits. On his 1986 retirement, he wrote the book 'Degas: The Man and the Work', released that year. Sutton was also a respected organiser of art exhibitions, including the 'France in the Eighteenth Century' show at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Arts) in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arthistorians.info/suttond|title=Dictionary of Art Historians}}</ref><ref name=WW1>Who's Who in Art, Bernard Dolman, The Art Trade Press Ltd, 1990, pg 438</ref>

He was appointed [C.B.E.](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) in the [1985 New Year Honours](/source/1985_New_Year_Honours) list.

Sutton married Sonja Klibansky in 1940, with whom he had a daughter, Madeleine; Gertrud Koebke-Knutson in 1952, with whom he had a son, Caspar; and, in 1960, Cynthia Sassoon.<ref name=NT1 /><ref name=WW1 /> Denys and Cynthia Sutton lived at [Westwood Manor](/source/Westwood_Manor), a [National Trust](/source/National_Trust) property at [Bradford-upon-Avon](/source/Bradford-upon-Avon), [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire), until 1983, following which they lived at Chelsea.<ref>Anthony Powell- Journals 1982-1986, Anthony Powell, Heinemann London, 1995, pg 31, 83</ref>

==Selected works==
*''Degas: The Man and the Work'' (1986)

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