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= Philip Rylands = Philip Brome Rylands (born December 29, 1950) is a British art historian, museum director and author. He is currently the President and CEO of The Society of the Four Arts, in Palm Beach, Florida and Director Emeritus of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. From 1979 to 2017 he led the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, transforming it from a private home into the most visited museum of modern art in Italy and the second most visited museum in Venice. For his services to culture, he was made a Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by the Italian State in 2019.

Education
Rylands earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts with honors in History and Art History at King's College, Cambridge, where his uncle George ("Dadie") Rylands was a professor of English Literature. In 1981, he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the 16th century Venetian painter Palma il Vecchio. His thesis was subsequently published by Cambridge University Press as the Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Palma il Vecchio.