Having completed an English degree and the Fine and Decorative Arts course at Christie’s, Clare joined AXA Art in 1982 as a surveyor. During her time there, she held a variety of positions including business development, marketing and sponsorship and started and ran their global sponsorship programme for TEFAF Maastricht.
She moved on to XL in 2005 and then in 2008 started the Fine Art and Heritage Department at Ecclesiastical Insurance. She joined Hallett Independent with a brief to develop Art, Heritage and Museum business in December 2016.
She is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and graduated from Birkbeck with a degree in art history in 2000, also completing the Attingham Trust summer school in 2015. She is particularly interested in 18th Century and Modern British pictures. She was a Trustee of Gainsborough’s House Museum for 10 years and is an Omega member of Charleston as well as a friend and member of various other art organisations. She has written and lectured widely on art and heritage insurance.
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