The artists cause at heart: marion Harry Spielmann and the late Victorian art world

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He published essays on art education and museum administration in Contemporary Review, Nineteenth Century, The New Review, National Review, Figaro Illustre. He was the art editor of the 10th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (and contributed articles to subsequent editions) and the author of numerous monographs on major artists of the period, of miscellaneous studies including catalogues of international exhibitions, popular surveys of art works and studies of portraiture and sculpture. He wrote for the Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Bryan's Dictionary of Painters. 3 An indefatigable member of many official committees for public memorials, international exhibitions,

Victorian Artists’ Letters: Rhetoric, Networks, and Social Capital

“…I wish to thank Oliver House, Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms, Special Collections Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, for his assistance in my research on the Isidore Spielmann archives; and Julia Watson for her suggestions on the genre of letter writing. 3 Among my previous publications, see (Codell [2003] 2012); my book chapters and articles in listed in the bibliography as (Codell 2016(Codell , 1989a(Codell , 1989b.…”