Laura Cumming

Laura Cumming is a British journalist who is the art critic of The Observer newspaper, a position she has held since 1999. Before that she worked for The Guardian, the New Statesman and the BBC. In addition to her career in journalism, Cumming has written well-received books on self-portraits in art and the discovery of a lost portrait by Diego Velázquez in 1845. The Vanishing Man was a New York Times bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2016.

Laura Cumming
Occupation(s)Journalist and art critic
Notable workThe Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016);
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons (2019)
Parent(s)James Cumming and Betty Elston
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