sentences:  Hayes was educated at Ardingly College and read modern history at Keble College, Oxford after which he undertook a postgraduate diploma at the Courtauld Institute of Art.In 1954 he became assistant keeper of the London Museum in Kensington Palace, the forerunner to the modern Museum of London.He developed an interest in Gainsborough after realising that British artists had hitherto been neglected by art-historical scholarship.