Beckett, Ronald Brymer (1891–1970), administrator in India and art historian, was born on 17 January 1891 in Micklefield Terrace, Rawdon, Yorkshire, the son of James Robertson Beckett (1855–1923), manager in a firm of silk and woollen merchants, and his wife, Annie Bertha Murray (1864–1952)...
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Bowler, Henry Alexander (1824–1903), painter and art administrator, was born on 30 November 1824 in Kensington, London, the son of Charles Bowler (1785/6–1849), a baker, of High Street, Kensington, and his wife, Frances Anne, née Lawrence (1799–1879). After attending private schools he studied art at ...
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Burton, Sir Frederic William (1816–1900), watercolour painter and art administrator, was born on 8 April 1816 at Clifden House, Corofin, near Inchiquin Lake, co. Clare, Ireland. He was the third son of Samuel Frederic Burton (b. 1786), a country gentleman, and his wife, ...
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Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927) by Alphonse Legros, 1893 © Copyright The British Museum
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Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845–1927), art and literary scholar and museum administrator, was born at Norwood, Surrey, on 18 June 1845, the youngest of the three children (all sons) who survived infancy of Bazett David Colvin (1805–1871), East India merchant, and his wife, Mary Steuart (1821–1902)...
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Cox, (Alfred) Peter (1918–2015), arts administrator and educationist, was born on 7 March 1918 at Highway House, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, the youngest of three children and only son of Stephen Cox (1870–1943), chief conservator of forests of the Madras Presidency...
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Duval [Fortuyn], Robert (1649–1732), painter and art administrator, was born in The Hague, Holland. Of his parents, nothing is known. He first worked as a pupil of the artist Nicolaes Willingh and subsequently studied and worked in Berlin and at Rome (where he was known as ...
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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865) by John Prescott Knight, exh. RA 1857 © Royal Academy of Arts, London
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Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock (1793–1865), painter and art administrator, was born at Plymouth on 17 November 1793, the fourth son of George Eastlake (d. 1820), judge-advocate and solicitor to the Admiralty, and his wife, Mary (d. 1823), daughter of Samuel Pierce...
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Fairbairn, Sir Thomas, second baronet (1823–1891), art administrator and patron, was born on 18 January 1823 at The Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester, the third of the eight surviving children of Sir William Fairbairn, first baronet (1789–1874), engineer, and his wife, Dorothy (1788/9–1882), daughter of ...
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Martin Hardie (1875–1952) by James McBey by kind permission of the family of James and Marguerite McBey; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collections
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Hardie, Martin (1875–1952), art historian and art administrator, was born at 1 Clifton Villas, Pancras, London, on 15 December 1875, the son of James Hardie of East Linton, near Dunbar, and his wife, Marion Pettie. Two of his uncles, John Pettie (1839–1893) and ...
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Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy (1900–1980) by Howard Coster, 1950s © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hendy, Sir Philip Anstiss (1900–1980), art administrator, was born at the Grammar School, Swifts Lane, Carlisle, on 27 September 1900, only son of Frederick James Robert Hendy, later director of the department of education, Oxford University (1919–28), and his wife, Caroline Isabelle, daughter of ...
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Hutchison, Sidney Charles (1912–2000), art administrator and art historian, was born on 26 March 1912 at 14 Swinton Street, St Pancras, London, the only child of Henry Hutchison, carpenter, and his wife, Augusta Rose, née Timmons, who died three weeks after his birth. His paternal grandmother and his paternal grandfather, a piano maker, brought him up with the assistance of five aunts. At an early age ...
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Manson, James Bolivar (1879–1945), painter and art administrator, was born at 65 Appach Road, Brixton, London, on 26 June 1879, the second of six children and eldest of four sons of James Alexander Manson, author and editor, and his wife, Margaret Emily, daughter of ...
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Mulvany, Thomas James (1779–1845), painter and art administrator, was born in Dublin, and was a pupil of Francis West at the Dublin Society school. He began his career as a miniature painter, and sent eight miniatures to an exhibition in the Parliament House...
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Sir Robert James Philipson (1916–1992) self-portrait, exh. the Scottish Gallery 1983 [Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat] © reserved; unknown collection; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Philipson, Sir Robert James [Robin] (1916–1992), painter and art administrator, was born in Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, on 17 December 1916, the son of James Philipson, London, Midland, and Scottish Railway stationmaster, and his wife, Agnes Postlethwaite, who already had three children from a first marriage. ...
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Rees, Jeremy Martin (1937–2003), arts administrator, was born on 8 May 1937 at Mary Stanley Nursing Home, Bridgwater, Somerset, the only son and eldest child of Glyndwr Rees (1905–2001), woodwork and music teacher, and his wife, (Ella) Jean, née Lamb (1914–2004), artist. At the time of his birth his parents were living at ...
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