Three volumes of notebooks that contain drafts and notes for Benthall's unpublished account of English Art Schools in London, 1626-1780. 

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Gilbert Benthall (1880-1961) was a collector of prints and drawings and an amateur art historian who also wrote an unpublished monograph on John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779).

When part of Colvin's library of architectural history was bequeathed to the Paul Mellon Centre library it arrived with papers that were either associated with or inserted into his books. He used his books as a way of filing additional information about the subject matter of each publication. The papers include correspondence, letters, postcards, copies of articles, unpublished papers (by Colvin and others), notes and sketches, photographs and press cuttings mainly relating to church and country house architecture. They also include copies of the Dictionary of British Architects interleaved and heavily  annotated by Colvin.

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Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (1919-2007) was an architectural historian and lecturer at Oxford University, best known for his 'Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840' (1954 & subsequent editions).

The archive comprises research notes, correspondence and photographs, many of which are annotated, mainly relating to Constable's monograph Richard Wilson (1953) and other articles on the artist. It contains transcripts of eighteenth century documentary sources including extracts from the Thomas Hollis diary, the Wicklow Papers and the Benjamin Booth Papers.  The archive also contains Constable's research papers on John Constable (1776-1837), John Flaxman (1755-1826) and other seventeenth and eighteenth century artists. 

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William George Constable (1887-1976) was an art historian and museum curator. He worked at the National Gallery (1923-1931) becoming Assistant Director (1930-1931); he was the first Director of the Courtauld Institute (1931-1937) and Curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1938-1957). He published widely on art collecting, connoisseurship, and British and Italian art.

The archive contains material concerning British and Irish travellers in Italy in the eighteenth century, compiled by Brinsley Ford between c.1950 and 1988. Further papers have been added since this time and the archive was edited by John Ingamells for publication as A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (1997). It comprises research notes, correspondence, transcriptions and copies of original sources, photocopies of published material, publications and photographs. The core of the archive is an alphabetical sequence of British and Irish travellers that includes artists, antiquaries, collectors and the nobility. There are further sections on foreign travellers and general subjects covering the arts, taste and patronage. The archive also includes Brinsley Ford's unpublished typescript Aspects of the Grand Tour. 

56 boxes. This material has been catalogued. Please search the archive catalogue for full details.

Sir (Richard) Brinsley Ford (1908-1999) was a gentleman-scholar, connoisseur and collector. His publications included 'Drawings of Richard Wilson' (1951) and 'English Taste in the Eighteenth Century' (1956). He was chairman of the National Art Collections Fund (1975-1980).

The archive consists of research notes, drafts, images, press cuttings and correspondence for Haldin's Dictionary of Women Artists, who were born before 1850. There is also correspondence relating to her unsuccessful attempts to get the dictionary published.

2 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist. 

Daphne Haldin (1899-1973) was an amateur art historian.

The archive contains research papers mainly relating to Hayes' publications or proposed publications principally on Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) and his unpublished catalogue for the Cincinnati Art Museum. There are notes, correspondence, photographs and off-prints of his many journal articles. The collection also includes an earlier gift of a large set of photographic files of Gainsborough's landscapes, portraits and prints and a smaller set on Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797). This relates to Hayes' doctoral thesis work and subsequent lifelong interest and writings on Gainsborough.

36 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

John Trevor Hayes (1929-2005) was an art historian and museum director. He was Assistant Keeper (1954) and then Director of the London Museum (1970-1974) and Director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974-1994). He published widely, especially on his specialist area of Thomas Gainsborough.

The material consists of drafts and notes for Herrmann's The English as collectors: a documentary chrestomathy, 1972.

1 box. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Frank Herrmann (b.1927) was a publisher at Faber & Faber and Methuen, a Director at Sotheby's and an auctioneer.

The material consists of research papers on Philip Mercier (c.1689-1760) and Andrea Soldi (1703-1771) which are directly related to catalogues of their work: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Walpole Society, Vol. XLVI, 1978 written with Robert Raines and Andrea Soldi - a check list of his work, Walpole Society, Vol. XLVII, 1980. The material includes mostly unpublished photographs relating to the catalogues. Additional material includes a considerable amount of information collected by Ingamells post publication, including copies of the published catalogues annotated with new and updated information. It also includes an oral history.

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John Anderson Stuart Ingamells (b.1934) is an art historian and museum director. He was Director of York City Art Gallery (1968-1977) and Director of the Wallace Collection (1978-1992). He has published widely, especially catalogues of art gallery collections and edited 'A Dictionary of British Art and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800' (1997) from Brinsley Ford's Archive.

Research papers relating to John Talman (1677-1726) the artist, antiquarian and traveller, which were edited posthumously for publication by Graham Parry and Antony Griffiths for the Walpole Society, Vol. LIX, 1997. The papers include a large number of photographs, most of which are annotated, which document Talman's drawings, his art collection and related contemporary manuscripts. There is a transcript, with annotations, of Talman's Letter-Book (1707-1712) and further transcripts of original source material. Additionally there are research notes, notebooks, copies of related articles, and correspondence.

39 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Hugh Macandrew (1931-1993) was an art historian and curator. He was Assistant Keeper at the Walker Art Gallery (1957-1962); Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum (1964-1977) and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Scotland (1987-1991).

The archive consists of Millar's extensive research papers on sixteenth and seventeenth century British painting, especially on the work of Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and Peter Lely (1618-1680). The most notable aspect of the collection are the series of notebooks, with two volumes of indexes, made between 1945-2006 that document Millar's tours of collections of art and related archival sources. There are a large number of photographic files on artists which contain annotated images (the majority are black and white photographs but there are also colour transparencies, cuttings from salesroom catalogues and press cuttings) which are interspersed with related notes, letters and publications. A substantial amount of these relate to Van Dyck and Lely. In addition there are preparatory papers relating to Millar's contribution to the publication Van Dyck : a complete catalogue of the paintings (2004). There are further research papers comprising notes, correspondence and transcripts and copies of original archival sources. There is a card index containing a bibliography.

44 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar (1923-2007) was an art historian and curator. He served in the Royal Household from 1947 becoming Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972-1988). His specialism was 17th century British painting.

The archive relates to William Packer's work as an art critic and includes his copy for published articles of art criticism, mainly prior to editorial intervention. The material comprises, for the most part, original typescripts. Sometimes it also includes related editorial correspondence and an edited version of the text.  The writings include reviews of exhibitions, galleries and books and essays and cover the period 1969-2009. 

9 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

William John Packer (b.1940) is an Art Critic and Painter.

The archive contains notes, photographs, cuttings, card indexes and correspondence relating to foreign artists working in Britain in the early eighteenth century covering, in particular, Peter Tillemans (c.1684-1734), Marcellus Laroon (1679-1772) and Egbert van Heemskerck (1634-1704). Some of the material relates to Raines' monograph for Marcellus Laroon (1966) and other publications. The papers include his joint research projects with John Ingamells on Philip Mercier (c.1689-1760) and Dutch and Flemish genre painting in England from c. 1660-1770. The latter includes Raines' research from inventories of households and collections.  There are also general art related press cuttings from c. 1916-1918.

13 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Dr Robert Raines (1909-1986) was Medical Officer at Hull University and an amateur art historian.

The archive consists of research material collected by Smart on Allan Ramsay which was posthumously  edited by John Ingamells for the publication Allan Ramsay: a Complete Catalogue of his paintings (1999) and is also related to Smart's earlier biography Allan Ramsay, Painter, Assayist & man of the Enlightenment (1992). Most of the material directly relates to the former book and includes files of research and typescript catalogue entries in the same order as the catalogue raisonné. In addition, there are 81 notebooks, files on rejected attributions for Ramsay, correspondence concerning Smart's publications and exhibitions on Ramsay, papers relating to collections, post-publication additions and further research papers covering Ramsay's notebooks, his Edinburgh sketchbook,  his drawings and copies of original sources. The archive includes Smart's photographic collection, mainly documenting Ramsay's work.

18 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Peter Alastair Marshall Smart (1922-1992) was Professor and Head of the Department of Fine Art at the University of Nottingham and Director of the University's Art Gallery.

Research papers concerning Guy Head (1760-1800) that include an unpublished monograph, copies of original sources and photographs.

2 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Malcolm Stewart (b.1934) retired teacher.

The archive consists of research papers relating to Strong's publications on Tudor and Stuart art, in particular, Inigo Jones: the theatre of the Stuart court, with Stephen Orgel (1973), various publications on miniatures and The English icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean portraiture (1969). The papers also include research on Lucas Hornebolte (c.1490-1544), Rowland Lockey (c.1565-1616) and Levina Teerlinc (c.1510-1576). There are photographs and other images, typescript drafts, research notes, related published material and correspondence often detailing additions or revisions subsequent to publication. 

34 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Sir Roy Colin Strong (b.1935) is art historian, museum director, writer and broadcaster and landscape designer. He was Assistant Keeper (1959-1967), then Director (1967-1973) of the National Portrait Gallery and Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum (1974-1987).

The collection primarily consists of annotated photographs which document Waterhouse's extensive research into British art between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The photographic files include related research notes, letters, off-prints, press cuttings and typescripts of documentary sources. The archive also contains a typescript draft of Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book of 1755 published by the Walpole Society, Vol.  XLI, 1966-1968; a typescript draft for his Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters; a typescript catalogue of prints and engravings for the Braybrooke collection; two annotated copies of his Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, published by the Walpole Society, Vol. XXXIII, 1948-1950 and some engravings after Gainsborough.

115 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but is still available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (1905-1985) was an art historian and museum director. He was Director of National Galleries of Scotland (1949-1952); Director of Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (1952-1970) and Director of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1970-1973). He published widely on British art. 

Research material collected for the compilation of two publications: Old Master paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master paintings executed before c. 1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, by Christopher Wright (1976) and British and Irish paintings in public collections : an index of British and Irish oil paintings by artists born before 1870 in public and institutional collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith (2006). The archive, which mainly relates to the latter publication, comprises listings of paintings in public collections which were collected 1971-2006. These include manuscript and typescript lists, many of which are unpublished, letters, notes, copies of published catalogues, some of which are out of print, and computer print-outs of collection catalogues. These are interspersed with letters and notes about collections. The material collated in the early part of the project has been bound into 21 volumes.

25 boxes and 21 volumes. This material is in the process of being catalogued and is available for consultation. Please refer to the archivist.

Christopher Wright (b.1945) is an art historian, artist and curator who specializes in 17th century Dutch and French painting and has written a number of art reference books.