Rodney Searight

Rodney Gerald Searight (8 September 1909 – 28 May 1991) was a British art collector, oil executive and artist. Searight lived and worked in the Middle East, primarily Egypt, for many years, and collected thousands of mostly European artworks connected to the area (described by the art history term Orientalism). In 1973 Searight's collection was described as "what is today probably the finest privately-owned collection of Middle Eastern art anywhere." His collection was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1985, where it is known as the Searight Collection.

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