Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (16 February 1905 – 7 September 1985) was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and English painting.[1] He was Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (1949–52) and held the Barber chair at Birmingham University until his official retirement in 1970.
^When the August 1970 issue of The Burlington Magazine was dedicated as a kind of festschrift to Waterhouse, the editor noted that he made his most memorable contributions in the areas of the Italian Baroque and in English painting; his work on Gainsborough and Reynolds became standards. (The Burlington Magazine vol. 112 No. 809, "British Art in the Eighteenth Century" (August 1970), p. 487.
Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (16 February 1905 – 7 September 1985) was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and...
the lasting fascination of scholars. In the view of art historian EllisWaterhouse, his portraiture "remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement...
Gainsborough, William T. Whitley, (John Murray, 1915) Gainsborough, EllisWaterhouse, (Edward Hulton, 1958) – the standard catalogue of the portraits etc...
La Caze bequest of 1869), and was painted in Naples. Art historian EllisWaterhouse wrote of it as "a touchstone by which we can interpret the whole of...
be regarded as conversation pieces. The 20th-century art historian EllisWaterhouse compares these two works to the "genre serieux" of contemporary French...
Waddesdon Manor, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 54, August 1959, 67–74; p. 68 EllisWaterhouse, Anthony Blunt; Paintings: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at...
popular ballads: edited from the collection of Francis James Child EllisWaterhouse (1978) Painting in Britain: 1530–1790, 4th ed., New York, Viking Penguin...
and architecture, the first title Painting in Britain, 1530–1790 by EllisWaterhouse was issued in 1953. By 1955, Pevsner produced a prospectus for the...
Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday, Phaidon 1967 (introduction by EllisWaterhouse), contains a full list of his writings up to 1966. Major works include:...
(1933–1936) Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy (1936–46) Kenneth Clark (1946–48) EllisWaterhouse (1955) John Pope-Hennessy (1956) Douglas Cooper (1957) John Summerson...
(Assistant Editor who ran the Magazine with advice from Read): 1944–1945 EllisWaterhouse acting editor (the magazine was officially without an editor): 1945–1947...
versions, 1779 to 1785) Georges de La Tour F. D. Klingender; quoted in EllisWaterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, Fourth Edition, New York, Viking...
Yale University Press, 2004, p. 124; ISBN 0-300-10469-3 Brown, p. 17. EllisWaterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530–1790, 4th Edn, 1978, pp. 70–77, Penguin...
imprisoned for debt and died in poverty at the age of thirty-five. EllisWaterhouse described Dobson as "the most distinguished purely British painter...
Group Limited. ISBN 9780094618701. Levey p. 128[full citation needed] EllisWaterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, fourth edition, New York, Viking...
benefiting from the famous associations of the address. More recently, EllisWaterhouse suggested that Hawker had been one of Lely's chief assistants. A full-length...
She married the English art historian EllisWaterhouse in 1949. After graduating from Cambridge, Waterhouse travelled to Greece where she attended the...
important visitors were all taken to see it. In the words of art historian EllisWaterhouse, "although Scrots was not a painter of high creative or imaginative...
be regarded as conversation pieces. The 20th-century art historian EllisWaterhouse compares these two works to the "genre serieux" of contemporary French...
though Horace Walpole believed that he was. According to art historian EllisWaterhouse, the only evidence for Dobson's appointment as serjeant-painter derives...
British Painting: The Golden Age from Hogarth to Turner (London, 1999) EllisWaterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, 4th Edn, 1978, Penguin Books (now...
that the painting had been reproduced. It came to the attention of EllisWaterhouse, the director of the National Gallery of Scotland (NGS) and was acquired...
which reads: "M.BY.RO.| PEAKE" ("made by Robert Peake"). Art historian EllisWaterhouse, however, suspected that the letterer may have worked for more than...
historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner held a research post at the university. Sir EllisWaterhouse was Barber Professor of Fine Art (1952–1970). Lord Cadman taught petroleum...
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