W. G. Constable

20 boxes. This material has been catalogued. Please search the archive catalogue for full details. (Ref WGC)

The archive contains 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 also contains transcripts of eighteenth century documentary sources including extracts from the Thomas Hollis diary, the Wicklow Papers and the Benjamin Booth Papers, Constable's research papers on John Constable (1776-1837), John Flaxman (1755-1826) and other seventeenth and eighteenth century artists.

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.