Alastair Smart

7 boxes. This material has not yet been catalogued but a boxlist is available. (Ref AS)

The archive contains 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.

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.