• Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (16 February 1905 – 7 September 1985) was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and...
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    the lasting fascination of scholars. In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, his portraiture "remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement...
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    Gainsborough, William T. Whitley, (John Murray, 1915) Gainsborough, Ellis Waterhouse, (Edward Hulton, 1958) – the standard catalogue of the portraits etc...
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    La Caze bequest of 1869), and was painted in Naples. Art historian Ellis Waterhouse wrote of it as "a touchstone by which we can interpret the whole of...
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    be regarded as conversation pieces. The 20th-century art historian Ellis Waterhouse compares these two works to the "genre serieux" of contemporary French...
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  • teacher Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), English art historian Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse (1857–1944), British artist Frederick George Waterhouse (1815–1898)...
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  • Waddesdon Manor, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 54, August 1959, 67–74; p. 68 Ellis Waterhouse, Anthony Blunt; Paintings: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at...
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  • Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday, Phaidon 1967 (introduction by Ellis Waterhouse), contains a full list of his writings up to 1966. Major works include:...
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  • and architecture, the first title Painting in Britain, 1530–1790 by Ellis Waterhouse was issued in 1953. By 1955, Pevsner produced a prospectus for the...
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    versions, 1779 to 1785) Georges de La Tour F. D. Klingender; quoted in Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, Fourth Edition, New York, Viking...
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    popular ballads: edited from the collection of Francis James Child Ellis Waterhouse (1978) Painting in Britain: 1530–1790, 4th ed., New York, Viking Penguin...
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    Dutch Painter". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 21 December 2018. Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530–1790, 1953, Penguin Books (now Yale History...
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    that the painting had been reproduced. It came to the attention of Ellis Waterhouse, the director of the National Gallery of Scotland (NGS) and was acquired...
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    imprisoned for debt and died in poverty at the age of thirty-five. Ellis Waterhouse described Dobson as "the most distinguished purely British painter...
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    Yale University Press, 2004, p. 124; ISBN 0-300-10469-3 Brown, p. 17. Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530–1790, 4th Edn, 1978, pp. 70–77, Penguin...
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    be regarded as conversation pieces. The 20th-century art historian Ellis Waterhouse compares these two works to the "genre serieux" of contemporary French...
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    Group Limited. ISBN 9780094618701. Levey p. 128[full citation needed] Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, fourth edition, New York, Viking...
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  • of the National Gallery Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator Ellis Waterhouse, art historian E. F. Benson, novelist John Betjeman, poet Humphrey...
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    important visitors were all taken to see it. In the words of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, "although Scrots was not a painter of high creative or imaginative...
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    (Assistant Editor who ran the Magazine with advice from Read): 1944–1945 Ellis Waterhouse acting editor (the magazine was officially without an editor): 1945–1947...
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  • (1933–1936) Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy (1936–46) Kenneth Clark (1946–48) Ellis Waterhouse (1955) John Pope-Hennessy (1956) Douglas Cooper (1957) John Summerson...
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    racing museum". BBC News. BBC. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018. Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790, Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1953, p...
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    which reads: "M.BY.RO.| PEAKE" ("made by Robert Peake"). Art historian Ellis Waterhouse, however, suspected that the letterer may have worked for more than...
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    historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner held a research post at the university. Sir Ellis Waterhouse was Barber Professor of Fine Art (1952–1970). Lord Cadman taught petroleum...
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    salon of either Choiseul or Pompadour. Jeffares Jeffares Tate Jeffares Ellis Waterhouse, Anthony Blunt. p240 MA Mutual Art (François Guérin) Retrieved 20 December...
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    Academic offices Preceded by Ellis Waterhouse Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University 1956 Succeeded by Douglas Cooper Preceded by Michael Levey...
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  • Nile Bullock, Caleb Eberhardt, Aunjanue Ellis, Carra Patterson and Brian McManamon. The film follows Phil Waterhouse (Biggs), a white documentary filmmaker...
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    though Horace Walpole believed that he was. According to art historian Ellis Waterhouse, the only evidence for Dobson's appointment as serjeant-painter derives...
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    British Painting: The Golden Age from Hogarth to Turner (London, 1999) Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, 4th Edn, 1978, Penguin Books (now...
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  • She married the English art historian Ellis Waterhouse in 1949. After graduating from Cambridge, Waterhouse travelled to Greece where she attended the...
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