Of those present at the Raphael Symposium at the National Gallery on November 8-9 2002 the following later signed an unpublished letter to The Times supporting the attribution of 'The Madonna of the Pinks' to Raphael.

Tom Henry (Oxford Brookes)
Donal Cooper (V&A)
Hugo Chapman (British Museum)
Alexander Nagel (University of Toronto)
David Ekserdjian (then Apollo Magazine, now University of Leicester)
David Alan Brown (NGA, Washington)
Arnold Nesselrath (Vatican)
Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean)
Silvia Ferino-Pagden (Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna)
Caroline Elam (CASVA, Washington)
Patricia Rubin (Courtauld Institute)
Bette Talvacchia (University of Connecticut, currently Villa i Tatti, Florence)
Aiden Weston-Lewis (National Gallery of Scotland)

Those who were not able to attend but signed the same letter were:

Keith Christiansen (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Timothy Clifford (National Gallery of Scotland)
Everett Fahy (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Rudolf Frhr. Hiller von Gaertringen (Kustos der Kunstsammlung der Universität, Leipzig)
David Scrase (Fitzwilliam)

The painting has been published as autograph in print or in monographs on Raphael by:

Francis Russell (Christie's)
Konrad Oberhuber
Jürg Meyer zur Capellen

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