Alan Clutton-Brock (1904 - 1976) was an English artist, art critic and essayist. His only detective novel, Murder at Liberty Hall, was published in 1941. He was was art critic of The Times (1945-55), a trustee of the National Gallery, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge (1955-58), and wrote several books on art criticism. Alan and his second wife Barbara were the last private owners of Jacobean Chastleton Hall in Oxfordshire, now a National Trust property, where many of his paintings are displayed.
