About the Author

Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, is an English peer, landowner, and philanthropist. After an early career in music in New York City, and the untimely deaths of his father and brother, he inherited the earldom in 2005 and has since then overseen the restoration of the family seat, St Giles House.

Tim Knox is a British art historian and museum professional. Since 2013, he has been the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, following an eight-year directorship of the Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

Justin Barton is a London-based photographer, whose commercial and editorial work encompasses portraiture, architecture, still life, interiors, and landscapes.