(Arthur) Clive Heward Bell (1881–1964) by Roger Fry, c. 1924 © Estate of Roger Fry; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bell, (Arthur) Clive Heward (1881–1964), art critic and writer
James Beechey
Bell, (Arthur) Clive Heward (1881–1964), art critic and writer, was born on 16 September 1881 at East Shefford, Berkshire, the second son of William Heward Bell (1849–1927), civil engineer, and his wife, Hannah Taylor Cory (1850–1942). In the words of his son Quentin...
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Haskell, Francis James Herbert (1928–2000), art historian
Charles Hope
Haskell, Francis James Herbert (1928–2000), art historian, was born on 7 April 1928 in London, the eldest of three children (two sons and one daughter) of Arnold Lionel David Haskell (1903–1980), a ballet critic, and Vera Saitsova (d. 1968), a Russian émigrée. His parents' common language was French, which ...
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Jourdain, (Emily) Margaret (1876–1951)
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(Emily) Margaret Jourdain (1876–1951) by unknown photographer, 1910 © reserved; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Jourdain, (Emily) Margaret (1876–1951), historian of English furniture and decoration
James Lees-Milne
revised by Hilary Spurling
Jourdain, (Emily) Margaret (1876–1951), historian of English furniture and decoration, was born on 15 August 1876 in Derwent, Derbyshire, the eighth of ten children of the Revd Francis Jourdain (1834–1898) and his wife, Emily, daughter of Charles Clay, a Manchester surgeon. As the hard-up daughter of a hard-up country parson, surrounded by caustic and highly competitive siblings, ...
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Taylor, Alec Clifton- (1907–1985), architectural historian and lecturer
Denis Moriarty
Taylor, Alec Clifton- (1907–1985), architectural historian and lecturer, was born on 2 August 1907 at Sutton, Surrey, the eldest of three children and the only son of Stanley Edgar Taylor (fl. 1870–1935), corn merchant, and his wife, Ethel Elizabeth Clifton Hills (...
