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| death_place = London, England | nationality = British | alma_mater = Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London | occupation = Art critic, journalist, art dealer | parents = Peter Warlock (father) | module = }} Brian Sewell (; 15 June 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic and media personality. He wrote for the ''London Evening Standard'' and was noted for his acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize.〔("Tate's collections 'wretched', says Brian Sewell" ), telegraph.co.uk, 30 November 2009.〕 ''The Guardian'' described him as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic",〔Cooke, Rachel. ("We pee on things and call it art" ), Guardian.co.uk, 13 November 2005; retrieved 30 November 2008〕 while the ''Standard'' called him the "nation’s best art critic", and Artnet News called him the United Kingdom's "most famous and controversial art critic". ==Early life== Sewell was born on 15 June 1931.〔 He was brought up by his mother in Kensington and other places. His father, composer Philip Heseltine, better known as Peter Warlock, committed suicide before he was born. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, northwest London. Offered a place to read history at Oxford,〔(Profile ), bbc.co.uk; accessed 21 September 2015.〕 Sewell instead chose to enter the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where his tutors included Anthony Blunt, who became his close friend. Sewell graduated in 1957 and worked at Christie's auction house, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. After leaving Christie's he became an art dealer. He completed his National Service as a commissioned officer in the Royal Army Service Corps. He took LSD as a young man, describing it in 2007 as a drug "for people of my age. It's wonderful. The one thing you could not do, however, was drip it into your eyeballs. It sent you absolutely bonkers." In 1979, after Blunt's exposure as the fourth man in the Cambridge spy ring, gaining much media attention, Sewell assisted in sheltering him in Chiswick.〔Ross Lydall ("Brian Sewell: Soviet double agent Anthony Blunt did no harm to Britain" ), ''London Evening Standard'', 22 October 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Sewell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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