Michael Jaffé

Andrew Michael Jaffé (3 June 1923 – 13 July 1997) was a British art historian and curator. He was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England for 17 years, from 1973 to 1990.

Life Born in London, he was educated at Wagner's and at Eton College. Jaffé's undergraduate studies were delayed for four years by World War II, during which time he served in the RNVR. He came up to King's College, Cambridge in 1945, studying History before changing to English, in which subject he gained a First. He became President of the Marlowe Society, and was editor of Granta while a student. After Cambridge, he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute, where he attended Johannes Wilde's lectures and had access to the Seilern Collection; this was followed by research at Harvard on Rubens and his contemporaries.

Selected works Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook 1966 Rubens 1967 Jacob Jordaens 1593–1678 1968 Rubens and Italy 1977 Rubens: catalogo completo 1989 Old master drawings from Chatsworth 1993 Editor of The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings 1994