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Edmund Capon was born on 11 June, 1940 in Sidcup, Kent, England, is a British-Australian art scholar specialising in Chinese art. Discover Edmund Capon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Art historian
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 11 June, 1940
Birthday 11 June
Birthplace Sidcup, Kent, England
Date of death 2019
Died Place London, England
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1940

Edmund George Capon (11 June 1940 – 13 March 2019) was an art scholar specialising in Chinese art.

Capon, born in Sidcup, England in 1940, obtained a Master of Philosophy degree (MPhil) in Chinese art and archaeology (including language) from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, and also studied 20th-century painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.

1973

From 1973–1978 he held the position of assistant keeper, Far Eastern Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum, having started there in 1966 in the Textile Department.

He married Ann Fairclough.

1974

During his tenure as Director, Capon became 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.

1977

He was married to Joanna from 1977.

1978

He was director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1978 to 2011.

Capon left London in 1978 to take up an appointment as Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), on the recommendation of the Premier of New South Wales, Neville Wran.

1994

On 10 June 1994 Capon was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "in recognition of service to the arts, particularly as Director of the Art Gallery of NSW".

2000

In 2000, he was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of New South Wales and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government.

2001

On 1 January 2001 he was presented with the Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society and the arts".

Capon was also appointed as a "Cavaliere" of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

2003

Under his directorship, the gallery focused more on Asian arts in its acquisitions, including the opening of a new Asian wing in March 2003.

In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, Capon was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the United Kingdom government "for services to the promotion of British art in Australia".

He was also a member of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, a member of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors (CAAMD) and an adjunct Professor of the University of New South Wales in Chinese studies.

Capon chose the winner of the Art Gallery Society of NSW prize in the annual Sculpture by the Sea awards.

This prize is donated by the Art Gallery and is worth $5000.

2004

In addition, he was a founding board Director of Sydney FC, when it was established in 2004.

2006

He was also the chair of soccer club Sydney FC from 2006 to 2007.

In September 2006 Capon replaced Walter Bugno as Chairman of Sydney Football Club, a position he held until August 2007, when he resigned owing to increasing responsibilities in his role as Director of the Art Gallery of NSW.

Following his retirement Capon served as a Visiting Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales.

2008

In September 2008 the gallery announced that it was making its biggest-ever acquisition, Paul Cézanne's landscape "Bords De La Marne", for $16.2 million to mark Capon's 30th anniversary as Director.

2010

During his 33 years as leader of the institution, Capon helped it to "become one of Sydney's most loved cultural institutions, one that received 1.3 million visitors" in 2010.

He became "its public face: ebullient, unorthodox, ready with the pithy quote but erudite, a Mandarin-speaking scholar of Chinese art".

A longtime football fan, Capon was a supporter of Chelsea Football Club.

2011

In August 2011, Capon announced that he would be retiring as director at the end of 2011, with a Picasso exhibition in October being one of the last major events of his tenure at the AGNSW.

2013

Continuing his passion for Asian art, Capon wrote and presented a three-part ABC TV-China Central Television co-produced documentary entitled Meishu: Travels in Chinese Art and his three-part documentary entitled The Art of Australia was co-produced by the BBC and the ABC and premiered in October 2013.

In August 2013 Capon's successor as Director of the AGNSW, Michael Brand, announced the establishment of the Edmund Capon Fellowship to act as an exchange program between the Gallery and galleries in China, saying:

"'Today we not only acknowledge Edmund Capon for his exemplary work in making Asian art an essential part of the Gallery, but through this fellowship we can now work much more closely with colleagues in the major museums of Asia [...] The fellowship will facilitate an exchange of staff between this Gallery and museums in Asia in key areas such as curatorial work, research, conservation, public programs, education and exhibition management, he said. It will build on the legacy of Edmund Capon, who was the first art museum director in Australia with expertise in the field of Asian art.'"

2014

In March 2014 Capon was appointed chair of the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art based in Sydney, and in the same year became chair of the Australian Institute of Architects Foundation.

Capon had several skin cancers removed during his later years.

2018

In 2018 his melanoma was treated by immunotherapy.

2019

Although the treatment removed the cancer, the side effects resulted in his death in London, on 13 March 2019, aged 78, during what was meant to be a short visit, after a long wished-for journey to Central Asia.