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Edmund Capon has been director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1978. For five years before leaving London he held the position of assistant keeper, Far Eastern Section at the Victoria & Albert Museum, having started there in 1966 in the Textile Department (specialising in Chinese textiles and costume, and European tapestries). He has also managed a commercial gallery in London primarily concerned with modern British paintings and sculpture. He obtained his Master of Philosophy degree in Chinese art and archaeology (including language) from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, and also studied 20th-century painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.

Mr Capon is recognised as a world expert in his particular field and has published several books and catalogues including Princes of jade (1974); Art and archaeology in China (1977); Qin Shihuang: terracotta warriors and horses (1982); and Tang China: vision and splendour of a golden age (1989), as well as many articles for Australian and international newspapers and professional art journals. In 1994 Mr Capon was made a member of the Order of Australia and in 2000 was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris casua) from the University of New South Wales and a Chevalier of Arts and Letters from the French government. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre and a member of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors (CAAMD).

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I remember him, yes! Michael Cain, played him in the movie in the swinging 1960's, London.

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