About Us

Anastasia Tennant

Read Literae Humaniores at St Anne’s College, Oxford; law conversion degree at the College of Law followed by 4 years at a private client law firm in Gray’s Inn Square where she qualified as a solicitor; in-house lawyer at the National Trust; 2000-2009 Director in the Heritage & Taxation Advisory Service at Christie’s; 2009- 2023 Deputy Head and then Senior Policy Adviser in the Museums & Cultural Property team initially at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and, since 2011, at the Arts Council where she provided advice and guidance across all its statutory cultural property schemes. Member of STEP and Historic Houses Tax Committee from 2024.

Gerry McQuillan OBE

B.Sc (Hons) Geography from the University of Southampton; teacher; HMRC; the Museums and Galleries Commission; seconded to DCMS for 2 years; Head of the Acquisitions, Exports and Loans Unit at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council until 2011 when he became Senior Advisor at the Arts Council specialising in all tax and regulatory matters to do with cultural property. Since retiring in 2015 he has been an independent consultant on cultural property and taxation to a number of private individuals and families.

Wendy Philips

Read Literae Humaniores at St. Anne’s College Oxford; qualified as a solicitor and practised in the private client/trusts and estates field for 10 years followed by 4 years with HMRC on a legislation drafting project; joined Sotheby’s in 2003 where she was head of Tax and Heritage from 2004 to 2023 providing advice and guidance to owners and their advisers on all aspects relating to the ownership of art and cultural property; Deputy Chairman, Sotheby’s UK between 2017 - 2023.  Member of STEP, and Historic Houses Tax Committee (2003 – 2024).