Rebecca Lyons is the Director of Collections & Learning at the Royal Academy with a remit covering the Collection, Library & Archive, Learning, Academic and Public Programs. From 2017 – 2022, Rebecca was also Director of the Attingham Trust’s prestigious Royal Collection Studies for museum directors, curators and art-world professionals, based at Windsor Castle. Rebecca has been Curator for the National Trust at Knole and Ightham Mote and Director of the Fine & Decorative Art MLitt and MA programs at Christie’s Education, London/University of Glasgow where she taught for fifteen years. Rebecca is also Chair of Trustees for a seven-form entry primary academy in east London. Educated at Oxford, the Courtauld and Cambridge, her most recent publications include an essay on 18th-century collector Welbore Ellis Agar for Getty Publications, 2019; a chapter in George IV: Art and Spectacle, 2019; “Playing the Market: Lord Yarmouth, the Prince Regent and the Role of the Royal Agent 1806-19”, in Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and United States 1550-1950, Bloomsbury, 2021; and a forthcoming chapter on royalty, art and architecture in 2023.