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Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
England
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Telephone: 020 7887 8838
Email: reading.rooms@tate.org.uk
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Businesses (29)
- Beau Geste Press, art publishers Exeter, Devon
- BLOCK art periodical
- Brook Street Art Gallery London
- John Denham Gallery, London London
- Drian Gallery, picture gallery London
- Galerie de Seine London
- Lawrence O'Hana Gallery, London London
- Gallery One London
- Godfrey Phillips Gallery London
- Hanover Gallery Ltd, art dealers, London London
- Kasmin Ltd, picture gallery London
- Kelpra Studio, poster artists
- Lefevre Gallery, London London
- Maltzahn Gallery London
- Roy Miles Gallery, London London
- New Vision Centre Gallery London
- Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London London
- Painter and Sculptor Magazine
- Pentonville Gallery London
- Piccadilly Gallery London
- Roland, Browse & Delbanco, art gallery London
- Felicity Samuel Gallery London
- Studio International Magazine
- Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, fine art dealers London
- Edward Totah Gallery London
- Jack Wendler Gallery London
- Christopher Wood Gallery London
- Zelda Cheatle Gallery London
- Zwemmer Gallery London
Organisations (36)
- Art and Architecture Action Group
- Art Information Registry
- Art Monthly
- Artist Placement Group
- Artists International Association
- Artists Placement Group
- Artists Union
- Arts Bureau in Oxford for War Service Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, London London
- Audio Arts, audio cassette-magazine
- Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, Cornwall
- Bigos, Anglo-Polish artists' group Brixton, Surrey
- British Council
- Brixton Artists Collective Brixton, Surrey
- Cambridge Dark Room Photographic Gallery Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- City Racing, art collective
- Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery London
- Contemporary Art Society London
- Fluxshoe, touring art exhibition
- Naum Gabo Trust
- Indica Gallery St James's Market, London
- Institute of Visual Culture Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- International Association of Art Critics: UK National Section
- International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
- League of Socialist Artists
- London Group, artists' association London
- Marjorie Parr Gallery Chelsea, Middlesex
- Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection Trust
- Paul Nash Trust London
- National Art Collections Fund
- Plymouth Institution Plymouth, Devon
- Seven and Five Society London
- Slade School of Fine Art London
- Sunderland Arts Centre Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
- Twenty-One Gallery Westminster, Middlesex
- Unit One group of artists
Persons (507)
- Ackerley, Joseph Randolph (1896-1967), writer and editor
- Adams, Robert (1917-1984), sculptor
- Agar, Eileen (1899-1991) afterwards Bartlett, then Bard, painter and photographer
- Aitken, Charles (1869-1936) Director of National Gallery Millbank
- Aldridge, John (1905-1984), painter
- Allan, Julian Phelps (1892-1996) sculptor
- Alley, Ronald Edgar (1926-1999), art historian, Keeper of Modern collections, Tate Gallery 1965-1980
- Alys, Francis (b1959), video and installation artist Belgium;Mexico
- Amaya, Mario (fl 1962-1975) Art Critic
- Anderson, Sir Colin Skelton (1904-1980) Knight, Director, Midland Bank
- Andrews, Michael (1928-1995) artist
- Anrep, Helen (1885-1965), supporter of the arts
- Arias, Margot Fonteyn de (1918-1991), ballerina Reigate, Surrey;Panama
- Armfield, Maxwell Ashby (1881-1972), writer, lecturer, designer and painter Ringwood, Hampshire
- Armitage, Kenneth (1916-2002), sculptor
- Armstrong, John (1893-1973) artist
- Ashton, Sir Arthur Leigh Bolland (1897-1983) Knight, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Atkinson, Conrad (b1940), artist Cumbria
- Ayrton, Michael (1921-1975) Artist and Author
- Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) artist
- Balfour, Nancy (1911-1997) Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Banting, John Frederick (1902-1972) Painter and Designer
- Baring, Rowland Thomas (1877-1953) 2nd Earl of Cromer
- Barker, Kit (1916-1988), artist
- Baron, Wendy (b1937), art curator and author
- Bas, Edward Le (1904-1966) Painter
- Bawden, Edward (1903-1989) Painter
- Bawden, Liz-Anne (1931-2012), teacher, town councillor, museum curator and campaigner
- Beckett, Ronald Brymer (1891-1970), art historian and colonial administrator
- Behrens, Sir Edward Beddington- (1897-1968) Knight League of Nations Representative
- Bell, Arthur Clive Heward (1881-1964) art critic
- Bell, Frank Graham (1910-1943), painter and journalist
- Bell, Julian Heward (1908-1937), poet
- Bell, Vanessa (1879-1961), artist London
- Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959), art critic
- Berlin, Sven (1911-1999) Painter
- Berthoud, Roger (1934-2013), journalist and author
- Bertram, Anthony (1897-1978), author and art historian
- Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984) Knight, poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster
- Bevan, Robert Polhill (1865-1925), painter and lithographer
- Bevir, Sir Anthony (1895-1977) Knight Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Binyon, Helen (b 1904) Artist Writer and Puppeteer
- Bird, Cyril Kenneth (1887-1965), cartoonist and journal editor
- Blandy, John (b 1951), painter
- Blunt, Anthony Frederick (1907-1983), art historian and spy
- Blythe, Ronald (b 1922) Poet and Writer
- Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross (1898-1974) Historian Scholar Arts Administrator
- Bodkin, Thomas Patrick (1887-1961) Director of National Gallery of Ireland and Barber Institute
- Bomberg, David Garshen (1890-1957) Painter
- Bone, Sir Muirhead (1876-1953) Knight, etcher and painter
- Boswell, James (1906-1971), artist
- Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bratby, John Randall (1928-1992) Painter
- Breakwell, Ian (1943-2005), writer and artist
- Breckenridge, Jack (d 2014) professor of art history and painting
- Brett, Dorothy (1883-1977), artist
- Brisley, Stuart (b1933), performance artists
- Britten, Edward Benjamin (1913-1976) Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, composer Lowestoft, Suffolk;Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- Brodzky, Horace (1885-1969) Artist
- Bromberg, Ruth (1921-2010), collector and art historian
- Browne, Felicia (1904-1936), artist Spain;Thames Ditton, Surrey
- Browse, Lillian (1906-2005), art dealer and historian London
- Brumwell, Marcus (1901-1983), businessman, art patron and collector
- Brzeska, Henri Gaudier- (1891-1915) Sculptor
- Burke, Sir Joseph Terence Anthony (b 1913) Knight Art Historian
- Burn, Rodney Joseph (1899-1984) painter
- Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (1833-1898) 1st Baronet, painter
- Burra, Edward John (1905-1976), painter
- Burrell, William (1861-1958) Knight, art collector
- Burt, Laurence (1925-2015), Sculptor Lecturer and Writer
- Bussy, Dorothy (1866-1960), writer and translator
- Bussy, Simon (1870-1954) Painter
- Butler, Reginald (1913-1981), Sculptor
- Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982) Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Butt, Hamad, (1962-1994), artist
- Calder, Alexander (1898-1976), engineer and sculptor
- Canney, Michael Richard Ladd (1923-1999), Painter
- Carline, George (1855-1920) Painter
- Carline, Richard (1896-1980) Painter
- Carline, Sydney William (1888-1929) Painter
- Carrington, Dora (1893-1932), painter
- Carter, Lady Helen Violet Bonham- (1887-1969) Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, Liberal politician
- Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell (1910-1999), Knight, architect
- Cast, Jesse Dale (1900-1976) Artist
- Chaimowicz, Marc Camille (b1947), artist Paris, France;London
- Chamberlain, Anne (d 1967) wife of Neville Chamberlain
- Chamot, Mary (1899-1993) art historian
- Charoux, Siegfried Joseph (1896-1967), sculptor
- Checkland, Sarah-Jane (fl 1996-2000) biographer
- Cholmondeley, Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile (1894-1989), wife of 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley
- Christopherson, John (1921-1996) painter
- Church, Katharine (1910-1999) Painter
- Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (1903-1983) Baron Clark, art historian
- Clarke, Geoffrey (b 1924), artist and sculptor
- Clements, Keith (1931-2003), artist, teacher and writer Brighton, Sussex
- Clough, Prunella (1919-1999), artist
- Coates, Wells Wintemute (1895-1958) Architect
- Coldstream, Sir William Menzies (1908-1987) Knight Painter
- Coleman, Leslie Bruce (1945-2013), artist, sculptor and author Kirk Ella, Yorkshire
- Collins, Cecil (1908-1989), painter
- Collins, Elisabeth (1904-2000), painter
- Colquhoun, Ithell (1906-1988), painter
- Compton, Michael (1927-2013), curator
- Connolly, Cyril Vernon (1903-1974), writer and literary reviewer
- Cooper, Arthur William Douglas (1911-1984), art historian
- Cornford, Frances Crofts (1886-1960), poet
- Coward, Roger (b 1939), artist
- Cox, Ken (1927-1968), artist and concrete poet
- Cox, Stephen Joseph (b1946) Sculptor
- Coxon, Raymond (1896-1997), painter and mural decorator Hanley, Staffordshire;Leeds, Yorkshire;Hammersmith, Middlesex
- Craig, Edward Henry Gordon (1872-1966), theatrical designer and author
- Craigie, Jill (1914-1999), director
- Crane, David (b1933), photographer
- Craxton, John (b 1922) Painter
- Creighton, Basil (1885-1989) translator
- Crocker, Phyllis Vipond (1900-1937), model, artist and craftwoman
- Cross, Thomas (1931-2009), painter, teacher and writer
- Crozier, Robin (1936-2001), artist
- Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965), poet, publisher and political activist
- Currie, John S (c 1890-1914), painter
- Davie, Alan (1920-2014), artist Grangemouth, Stirlingshire
- Dawson, Peter (1903-1960) Painter and Designer
- Dean, Catherine (1905-1983) Painter
- Dent, Leonard Maurice Edward (1888-1987) Businessman and Art Collector
- Dick, Sir William Reid (1879-1961) Knight, sculptor
- Dicker, Charles George Hamilton (b 1896) Painter
- Dodgson, John Arthur (1890-1969) painter
- Douglas, Francis Archibald Kelhead (1896-1954) 11th Marquis of Queensbury
- Douglas-Hamilton, Elizabeth Ivy (b 1916) wife of 14th Duke of Hamilton
- Drew, Joanna (1929-2003), arts administrator and curator
- Dunbar, Evelyn (1906-1960), artist, illustrator and teacher
- Dunstan, Bernard (b 1920) Painter
- Durst, Alan Lydiat (1883-1970), sculptor
- Earp, Thomas Wade (1895-1958) Art Critic and Writer
- Eden, Robert Anthony (1897-1977) 1st Earl of Avon, prime minister
- Ehrenzweig, Anton (1908-1966), lecturer and writer, art education
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) poet
- Elliott, Clarence (1881-1969) Writer On Horticulture
- English, Grace (1891-1956) Painter and Etcher
- Epstein, Sir Jacob (1880-1959), Knight, sculptor
- Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Artist
- Eurich, Richard Ernst (1903-1992) Painter
- Evans, Benjamin Ifor (1899-1982) Baron Evans of Hungershall
- Evans, Merlyn Oliver (1910-1973), painter
- Farr, Dennis (1929-2006), gallery director
- Finberg, Alexander Joseph (1866-1939), art historian
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006), poet
- Finn-Kelcey, Rose (1945-2014), artist
- Fish, Arthur (fl 1887-1908), art critic and writer
- Fontanne, Lynne (1887-1983) Actress
- Forbes, Stanhope Alexander (1857-1947), portrait painter
- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and critic
- Fothergill, John Rowland (1876-1957) Author and artist
- Fox-Pitt, Sarah (d2009), art historian and author
- Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958) Painter
- Frost, Honor (1917-2010), underwater archaeologist, draughtswoman and designer Cyprus;London
- Frost, Sir Terry (1915-2003) Knight, artist
- Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934), art critic and artist
- Fuller, Peter (fl 1960-1990), art critic and editor of 'Modern Painting'
- Furlong, William (b 1944), sculptor and sound artist
- Gabo, Naum (1890-1977) sculptor
- Garnett, Angelica Vanessa (b 1918), artist and author
- Garrard, Rose (b1946), artist and writer
- Gathorne-Hardy, Fidelity (1912-2009), Countess of Cranbrook
- Gathorne-Hardy, Robert (1902-1973), author
- Gear, William (1915-1997), artist
- Gertler, Mark (1892-1939) Painter
- Gibb, Phelan (1870-1948) painter
- Gibbs, Michael (1949-2009), illustrator and critic
- Gilbert, Stephen (b 1910) Painter
- Gill, Eric (1882-1940), sculptor and engraver
- Ginesi, Edna (1902-2000), artist Leeds, Yorkshire;Paris, France;Hammersmith, Middlesex
- Ginner, Isaac Charles (1878-1952) Painter
- Gluck, Hannah (1895-1978), portrait painter
- Gooding, Mel (b 1941), art historian and author
- Gordon, Max (1931-1990), architect and art collector
- Gouk, Alan (b 1939), artist
- Gowing, Lawrence Burnett, (1918-1991), painter and writer on painting
- Graaf, JB de (1873-1947), art collector
- Graham, Wilhelmina Barns- (1912-2004), painter
- Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978), artist
- Greg, Sir Robert Hyde (1876-1953) Knight Diplomat
- Guevara, Alvaro (1894-1951) Painter
- Guevara, Meraud Guinness (1904-1993), Painter
- Guthrie, James (1874-1952) Artist and Printer
- Gwynne-Jones, Allan (1892-1982), Painter
- Hague, Rene (1905-1981) Printer and Scholar
- Hale, Sir John Rigby (1923-1999) Knight Historian
- Hall, David (1937-2014), sculptor, video artist, writer and educator Leicester, Leicestershire
- Hall, Edna Clarke (1879-1979), artist
- Hamilton, Hamish (1900-1988) Publisher
- Hamilton, Richard (b 1922) Painter
- Harrison, Charles (b 1942), professor of history and theory of art
- Harrison, Margaret (b 1940), artist
- Hartrick, Archibald Standish (1864-1950) Painter
- Hayman, Patrick (1915-1988), artist
- Hayter, Stanley William (1901-1988) painter and print maker
- Henderson, Nigel (1917-1985), photographer and artist
- Hendy, Sir Philip (1900-1980) Knight Director of the National Gallery
- Hennell, Thomas Barclay (1903-1945) Painter Poet and Illustrator
- Hennessy, Sir John Wyndham Pope- (1913-1994) Knight Art Historian
- Hepworth, Dame Jocelyn Barbara (1903-1975), artist, sculptor Wakefield, Yorkshire;St Ives, Cornwall
- Herman, Josef (1911-2000), painter
- Heron, Patrick (1920-1999), Painter
- Hess, Dame Julia Myra (1890-1965), Pianist, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Highmore, Joseph (1692-1780) Painter
- Hill, Adrian (1895-1977), President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
- Hill, Anthony (b 1930), artist London
- Hilton, Roger (1911-1975), artist London;Cornwall
- Hilton, Rose (b 1931) Painter
- Hinks, Roger Packman (1903-1964), art historian and museum curator
- Hinrichsen, Klaus (1912-2004), art historian, businessman, wartime internee
- Hitchens, Sydney Ivon (1893-1979) Artist
- Hobbs, Peter (1930-1994) painter
- Hodgkins, Frances (1869-1947) Painter
- Hodin, Josef Paul (b 1905) Author Art Critic Art Historian
- Hogarth, Paul (1917-2001) Illustrator
- Holden, Andy (b1982), artist and musician
- Holden, Cliff (b 1919), artist
- Horton, Percy Frederick (1897-1970) Painter
- Houthuesen, Albert Antonius Johannes (1903-1979) Painter
- Howard, Brian Christian de Claiborne (1905-1958), poet
- Hughes, Arthur (1832-1915) Artist
- Hunt, Kay (1933-2001), artist
- Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910), painter
- Hurry, Leslie (c1930-2008), artist
- Hussey, John Walter Atherton (1908-1985) Dean of Chichester
- Hutchinson, St John (1884-1942), Barrister-at-law
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963), novelist and critic Surrey
- Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887-1975) Knight, zoologist and philosopher
- Innes, James Dickson (1887-1914) Painter
- Ironside, Robin (1912-1965) Painter and Writer
- Jackson, Francis Ernest (1872-1945), artist and painter
- Jarman, Derek (1942-1994), artist, painter and film maker
- Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey Alan (1900-1996) Knight, architect and town planner
- John, Gwendolen Mary (1876-1939), painter Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire;Paris, France;London;Dieppe, France
- Jones, David Michael (1895-1974) painter, poet and essayist
- Jones, John (1926-2010), artist and teacher
- Jones, Stanley (b1933), artist
- Joseph, Lily Delissa (1863-1940), painter
- Kahnweiler, Gustav (1895-1989) Art Dealer
- Kalinovska, Milena (fl1982-1986), curator, contemporary art
- Kandinsky, Vassily (1866-1944) Russian painter
- Kanwar, Amar (b 1964), artist, filmmaker and activist New Delhi, India
- Karlowska, Stanislawa de (1876-1952), painter
- Kelly, Mary (b 1941), artist
- Kennard, Peter (b 1949), photomontage artist London
- Kestelman, Morris (1905-1998), artist London
- Kidner, Michael (b1917) Painter
- King, David (1943-2016), graphic designer, historian, author, collector of Soviet art
- Kinley, Monika (fl1940), art curator and collector
- Knight, Dame Laura (1877-1970), painter
- Koenig, Ghisha (1921-1993) Sculptor
- Kokoschka, Oskar (1886-1980), artist and writer
- Konody, Paul George (1872-1933) art critic
- Lacey, Bruce, (1927-2016), artist and performer
- Lamb, Henry (1883-1960) Artist
- Landay, Michael (b 1963) artist
- Lane, Brian (1942-1999) artist, gallery proprietor and publisher
- Lanyon, George Peter (1918-1964) Painter
- Latham, John (1921-2006), painter
- Lavery, Sir John (1856-1941) Knight, painter
- Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930), poet, novelist and essayist
- Lee, Arthur Hamilton (1868-1947) Viscount Lee of Fareham, statesman
- Lees-Milne, James (1908-1997), architectural historian, biographer, conservationist
- Lehmann, Rosamond Nina (1901-1990), novelist
- Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859) Painter
- Leslie, George Dunlop (1835-1921), painter
- Leslie, Mary (1833-1908) Artist
- Leslie, Peter (1877-? 1950) Artist
- Leslie, Robert Charles (1826-1890) Marine Painter
- Levine, Gemma (b1939), photographer
- Levy, Mervyn Montague (1914-1996), painter, writer and broadcaster Swansea, Glamorgan
- Lewis, Cecil Day (1904-1972) poet
- Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1882-1957) Author
- Lindsay, David Robert Alexander (1900-1975) 28th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, Sir Ernest Daryl (1889-1976) Knight Director National Gallery of Victoria Australia
- Livingstone, Marco (b 1952), art historian
- Lowinsky, Thomas Esmond (1892-1947) Painter and Book Illustrator
- Lumb, Michael (b 1945), artist
- Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) Knight, architect
- Lyle, John (1932-2002), bookseller and surrealist
- MacBryde, Robert (1913-1966), Painter
- MacColl, Dugald Sutherland (1859-1948), painter and museum administrator
- Maclagan, Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple (1879-1951) Knight Art Historian
- Maddox, Conroy (1912-2005), artist Ledbury, Herefordshire
- Mahoney, Charles (1903-1968), artist
- Mallet, Sir Victor Alexander Louis (1893-1969), Knight, diplomat
- Manson, James Bolivar (1879-1945), painter and art administrator
- Marsh, Sir Edward Howard (1872-1953) Knight, public servant and patron of the arts
- Martin, Sir Alec (1884-1971), Knight and Managing Director of Christies
- Martin, Barry (b 1943) painter
- Martin, Frank (1921-2005), artist and illustrator
- Martin, John Leslie (1908-2000), Knight and Professor of Architecture
- Martin, Kenneth (1905-1984), painter
- Massey, Vincent (1887-1967) Canadian Statesman
- Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965), novelist and playwright
- Maxwell, Douglas (fl 1980-1999), journalist
- Mayo, Dame Eileen (1906-1994), painter, illustrator and writer
- Mayor, David (b 1949), art publisher, curator and collector
- McCormick, William Symington (1859-1930) Knight, literary scholar
- Mcevoy, Arthur Ambrose (1878-1927) painter
- McEwan, John (b1942), art critic
- Medley, Charles Robert Owen (b 1905) Painter and Theatrical Designer
- Mellis, Margaret (1914-2009), artist Edinburgh, Midlothian;Paris, France
- Melly, Alan George Heyward (1926-2007), Jazz Musician
- Meninsky, Bernard (1891-1950), instructor in drawing, painter
- Meninsky, Nora (1890-1989), 2nd wife of Bernard Meninsky
- Menuhin, Yehudi (1916-1999) Baron Menuhin, violinist
- Meynell, Viola (1886-1956), poet and author
- Millais, Sir John Everett (1829-1896) Knight, painter
- Miller, John (b 1911), painter
- Milne, John (1931-1978), sculptor
- Milner, Frederick (1855-1939), landscape and seascape painter
- Minton, John (1917-1957) Painter
- Mitchell, Denis (b 1912) Sculptor Painter and Craftsman
- Montagu, George Charles Montagu (1874-1962) 9th Earl of Sandwich
- Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Walter John (1894-1973) 8th Duke of Buccleuch
- Moody, Ronald Clive (1900-1984), sculptor and poet Jamaica
- Moore, Henry (1898-1986) sculptor Castleford, Yorkshire
- Moore, Joan (d 1989) Countess of Drogheda
- Morland, Dorothy (1906-1999), arts administrator
- Morley, John (b 1942) Artist
- Morreau, Jacqueline (1929-2016), artist
- Morris, Sir Cedric Lockwood (1889-1982) Baronet Painter
- Mortimer, Charles Raymond Bell (1895-1980), writer on literature and art critic
- Moss, Colin (1914-2005), artist Ipswich, Suffolk
- Motesiczky, Marie-Louise von (1906-1996), artist Vienna, Austria
- Moynihan, Rodrigo (1910-1990), painter
- Mulready, William (1786-1863) Painter
- Munnings, Sir Alfred James (1878-1959) Knight Painter
- Murray, Charlotte (fl 1945-1970) Art Collector
- Murray, Frederick (fl 1930-1967) Engineer and Patron of the Arts
- Musgrave, Victor (1920-1984) Poet Artist Gallery Owner
- Mynors, Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville (1903-1989) Knight, classical scholar
- Nahum, Peter (b1947), art dealer, Leicester Galleries, London London
- Nash, John Northcote (1893-1977), painter
- Nash, Paul (1889-1946), painter
- Neagu, Paul (1938-2004), Sculptor
- Newton, Algernon (1880-1968) Artist
- Newton, Eric (1893-1965) Art Critic
- Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982), painter
- Nicholson, Elsie Queen (1908-1992), painter and textile designer
- Nicholson, Sir William Newzam Prior (1872-1949) Knight Painter and Wood Engraver
- Nicholson, Winifred (1893-1981) Painter
- Nicolson, Lionel Benedict (1914-1978), art historian
- Nimptsch, Uli (1897-1977), sculptor
- Norbert, Professor Lynton (1927-2007), art historian
- Norton, Noel Evelyn Peter (d 1972) Art Collector
- Nuttall, Jeff Addison (1933-2004), artist and author Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Olivier, Laurence Kerr (1907-1989) Baron Olivier, actor
- Ormsby-Gore, William David (1918-1985) 5th Baron Harlech, politician and diplomat
- Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague (1878-1931) Knight Painter
- Page, David (b1935), artist
- Palmer, Albert Harold (1911-1985), painter
- Panting, John (1940-1974), artist
- Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo (1924-2005), Knight, artist
- Parker, Sir Karl Theodore (1895-? 1991) Knight Keeper Ashmolean Museum
- Pasmore, Edwin John Victor (1908-1998), artist
- Peake, Mervyn (1911-1968), author and artist
- Pearce, Charles Maresco (1874-1964), artist London
- Pender, Jack (b 1918) Painter
- Pennell, Joseph (1860-1926) Etcher and Painter
- Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Loen (1902-1983), knight, professor of art, writer on architecture
- Phillips, Ewan Godfrey (b 1914) Art Historian and Dealer
- Phillpot, Clive (fl 1970-2016), writer, curator and librarian
- Philpot, Glyn Warren (1884-1937) painter sculptor
- Piper, John Egerton Christmas (1903-1992), artist
- Pope, Arthur Upham (1881-1969) Historian of Persian Art
- P-Orridge, P-Orridge Genesis (b1950), artist
- Potter, Mary (1900-1981) Landscape Painter
- Power, E J (1899-1993), art collector, trustee of Tate Gallery
- Preston, Kerrison (1884-1974) Writer
- Procter, Dod (1892-1972), artist
- Procter, Ernest (1886-1935) Painter and Designer
- Pulham, Peter Rose (1910-1956), artist and photographer Hampton, Middlesex
- Rae, John (b1925), artist, architect, senior lecturer
- Raverat, Gwendolen Mary (1885-1957), wood engraver and author
- Ravilious, Eric William (1903-1942) Painter
- Rawsthorne, Isabel (1912-1992), Painter
- Read, Sir Herbert (1893-1968), Knight, art critic, author and anarchist
- Read, John (1923-2011), television documentary filmmaker
- Reid, Sir Norman Robert (1915-2007) Knight, painter, arts administrator, and director of Tate Gallery 1964-1979 London
- Rice, Anne Estelle (1877-1959), artist United States of America;Paris, France
- Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902-1983) Knight, actor
- Ritblat, Jill (b1942), arts critic, producer, collector
- Robertson, Bryan (1925-2002), art critic, curator and Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Robertson, Joan Souter (1904-1985) portrait painter
- Rodin, Francois Auguste Rene (1840-1917) French Sculptor
- Rodney, Donald (1961-1998), artist
- Roeder, Helen (fl. 1930) painter
- Rogers, Claude Maurice (1907-1979) painter
- Rosenberg, Eugene (1907-1990), architect
- Rothenstein, Sir John Knewstab Maurice (1901-1992) Knight, Director of Tate Gallery
- Rothenstein, Michael (1908-1993) Painter and Printmaker
- Rothenstein, Sir William (1872-1945) Knight, painter
- Rowntree, Kenneth (1915-1997), artist
- Russell, John (b 1919) Art Critic
- Rutherston, Albert Daniel (1881-1953) Artist and Designer
- Sackville-West, Edward Charles (1901-1965) 5th Baron Sackville, author
- Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest (1861-1943) Knight Educational Pioneer and Art Patron
- Sands, Dame Ethel (1873-1962), painter
- Sassoon, Edwina (b1951), art curator
- Sausmarez, Maurice de (1915-1987), painter
- Scarfe, Norman (1923-2014), historian and author
- Schiff, Sydney (1868-1944) Novelist
- Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) German artist
- Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert (1880-1960), Knight, architect Hampstead, Middlesex
- Scott, William George (1913-1989), painter
- Self, Colin (b 1941) Artist
- Sempill, Cecilia Alice Forbes- (1903-1984), Patron of the Arts and wife of 19th Baron Sempill
- Sharkey, John (fl1964-1966), artist
- Sheppard, Maurice Raymond (b1947), artist
- Sibson, Henry (1795-1870) sculptor
- Sickert, Walter Richard (1860-1942), painter
- Sidey, Tessa Jane (1955-2011), curator and art historian Birmingham, Warwickshire;Dundee, Angus;York, Yorkshire;Dublin, County Dublin
- Sielle, Robert (1895-1983), framemaker, fine art Liverpool, Lancashire;London
- Sieveking, Lancelot de Giberne (1896-1972), author, playwright and producer
- Simmonds, William George (1876-1968) Sculptor and Painter
- Sitwell, Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell (1892-1969), 5th Baronet, author
- Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell (1897-1988), 6th Baronet, author and art critic
- Skeaping, John Rattenbury (1901-1980), sculptor
- Smith, Elinor Bellingham (1906-1988), painter
- Smith, Sir Matthew Arnold Bracy (1879-1959), Knight and artist
- Smith, Pauline (b 1933), artist
- Snell, Sue (b 1961), photographer
- Snow, Peter (1927-2008), artist and theatre designer
- Sparrow, John Hanbury Angus (1906-1992) Warden of All Souls College Oxford
- Spear, Ruskin (1911-1990), artist
- Spencer, Jean (1942-1998) artist
- Spencer, Sir Stanley (1891-1959) Knight, painter
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold (1909-1995) Knight, poet
- Startup, Peter (1921-1976) sculptor
- Stephenson, John Cecil (1889-1965) Painter
- Stern, James (1904-1993), writer and translator
- Stevens, Alfred (1818-1875), artist
- Stokes, Adrian Durham (1902-1972) Writer
- Stoller, John (fl 1973-1975), art dealer and gallerist
- Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979) Designer and Engraver
- Sutherland, Graham Vivian (1903-1980), painter
- Sydney, Berenice (1944-1983), artist
- Sylvester, David (1924-2001), art historian and curator
- Symons, Patrick Stewart (1925-1993), painter
- Tate, Sir Henry (1819-1899) 1st Baronet Sugar Refiner and Founder of the Tate Gallery
- Tennyson, Sir Charles Bruce Locker (1879-1977) Knight Author and Businessman
- Thomas, James Havard (1854-1921), sculptor
- Thompson, Jon (1936-2016), artist, curator and academic
- Tilson, Joe (b 1928) Mixed-media Artist
- Tinguely, Jean (1925-1991), artist
- Todd, Ruthven Campbell (1914-1978), writer and poet
- Tonks, Henry (1862-1937), painter
- Townsend, Peter (1919-2006), sinologist, writer and arts editor London;China
- Treece, Henry (1911-1966) Author
- Tresilian, Nicholas (b 1938), art historian and writer
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and etcher
- Tuke, Henry Scott (1858-1929), artist Falmouth, Cornwall
- Tunnard, John (1900-1971) Painter
- Turner, Alfred (1874-1940) Sculptor
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), Landscape Painter
- Turner, Silvie (b 1946) author
- Underwood, George Claude Leon (1890-1975), artist Shepherds Bush, Middlesex
- Valentin, Curt (d 1954) Art Gallery Owner
- Valois, Dame Ninette de (1898-2001), ballet dancer and founder of Royal Ballet
- Vaughan, John Keith (1912-1977) Painter Designer and Illustrator
- Vezelay, Paule (1892-1984), painter, etcher, wood engraver and lithographer
- Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
- Viner, Darrell (1946-2001), computer artist
- Vinter, John Alfred (1828-1902) Portrait Painter and Lithographer
- Viola, Bill (b 1951), video artist Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Vogelpoel, Pauline (1926-2002), director of Contemporary Arts Society
- Wackrill, H Roland (1905-1992), art critic
- Wade, George Edward (1853-1933) Sculptor
- Wadsworth, Edward Alexander (1889-1949), painter
- Walker, Dame Ethel (1861-1951) Painter
- Walker, John Albert (b1938), art critic and historian
- Walmsley, Anne (b 1931), lecturer, artist and author
- Walton, Sir William Turner (1902-1983), Knight, composer Oldham, Lancashire
- Warburton, Joan (1920-1996), painter
- Ward, John Stanton (b 1917) Painter
- Watney, Simon (b 1949), gay activist, cultural theorist, media analyst, and art historian
- Watson, Francis Leslie (1907-1988), art critic and author
- Watson, George Spencer (1869-1934), artist London
- Weight, Carel (1908-1997) painter
- Wells, John (1907-2000) Painter
- Weschke, Karl (1925-2005), painter Germany;Zennor, Cornwall
- Whistler, James Abbot McNeill (1834-1903), painter
- Whiteread, Rachel (b 1963), artist
- Wilde, Gerald William Clifford (1905-1986), artist Clapham, Surrey
- Wilenski, Reginald Howard (1887-1975) Art Historian and Critic
- Willats, Stephen (b 1943) conceptual artist
- Williams, Aubrey (1926-1990), painter Georgetown, Guyana
- Williams, Sir William Emrys (1896-1977), Knight, Secretary General of the Arts Council
- Winkworth, William Wilberforce (1897-1991), art historian London;Isle of Wight
- Withers, Percy (1867-1945) Author
- Witt, Sir Robert Clermont (1872-1952) Knight Art Collector
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1901-1971) Professor of Fine Art
- Wolmark, Alfred (1877-1961), Painter and designer
- Wood, Christopher (1901-1930) Painter
- Wood, Christopher Edward Russell (1941-2009), art historian and dealer
- Wood, James (1889-1975) Artist
- Wood, Paul (fl1970-2015), artist and academic
- Woodeson, John (fl 1970-1972), art historian
- Worth, Irene (1916-2002), actress
- Wynter, Bryan (1905-1975), artist London;Zennor, Cornwall
- Youngman, Nan (1906-1995) Artist
- Zurbrugg, Nicholas (c1960-2001), art historian, lecturer and writer
- Zwemmer, Anton (1892-1979) Art Bookseller
Diaries (8)
- Bannerman, Charles (fl 1906-1976), artist
- Booth, Colin (fl 1960-1979), artist and academic
- Brown, David (fl 1940-1999), art historian and curator
- Walker, John A (b 1939)
- Lewis, Adrian (fl 1970-2010), art historian
- Rees, Jeremy (fl1980), curator
- Robinson, Yvonne (fl1980-2011), artist
- Wilson, Sarah (fl 1986-1995)
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (89)
- NRA 38588 Michael Ayrton, art critic: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 38574 John Banting, painter and designer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41286 Anita Bartle, author and journalist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38894 Julian Bell, poet: letters from Vanessa Bell link to online catalogue
- NRA 38570 Anthony Bertram, author and art historian: papers rel to biography of Paul Nash link to online catalogue
- NRA 42336 Robert Polhill Bevan, painter and lithographer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40881 David Garshen Bomberg, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41283 James Boswell, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40428 James Boswell, graphic artist and illustrator: sketchbooks and drawings link to online catalogue
- NRA 38824 Gordon Bottomley, poet and playwright: corresp, mainly from Paul Nash link to online catalogue
- NRA 40104 Horace Brodzky, artist: corresp and artwork link to online catalogue
- NRA 38571 Edward Burra, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40878 Edward John Burra, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38595 Richard and Sydney William Carline, painters: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38589 Dora Carrington, artist: letters to Margaret Waley link to online catalogue
- NRA 32463 Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark, art historian: corresp, personal and literary papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38813 Wells Wintemute Coates, architect and designer: corresp and papers rel to Unit One link to online catalogue
- NRA 38822 Sir William Menzies Coldstream, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38899 Contemporary Art Society link to online catalogue
- NRA 41282 Peter Dawson, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38590 JB de Graaf, art collector: corresp with British artists link to online catalogue
- NRA 40879 Sir William Reid Dick, sculptor: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38812 Thomas Wade Earp, art critic and writer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43451 Grace English, painter: corresp and papers, mainly rel to Dame Ethel Walker link to online catalogue
- NRA 38660 Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor: family corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 38655 Richard Eurich, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42584 Merlyn Oliver Evans, painter: corresp, sketchbooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38818 Felicity Samuel Gallery, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 38653 Cecilia Alice Forbes-Sempill, Lady Sempill: letters from artists link to online catalogue
- NRA 40105 Terry Frost, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38821 Galerie de Seine, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 43362 Max Gordon, architect: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44542 Meraud Guinness Guevara, painter: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38893 Rene Hague, printer and scholar: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44541 Charles Harrison: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40102 Thomas Hennell, painter, poet and illustrator: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43447 Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, sculptor: notebooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 38597 Josef Herman, artist: drawings and watercolours, mainly of Ystradgynlais link to online catalogue
- NRA 39360 Joseph Highmore, painter: personal and family papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38573 Ivon Hitchens, painter: Cecil Sharp House mural designs link to online catalogue
- NRA 38594 Frances Hodgkins, painter: letters to Jane Saunders link to online catalogue
- NRA 43449 International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38815 Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect: corresp with Ben Nicholson link to online catalogue
- NRA 38598 David Jones, artist: drawings, watercolours and sketchbooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 40423 David Michael Jones, artist and writer: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 38898 Stanislawa de Karlowska, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38649 Oskar Kokoschka, painter: corresp rel to his portrait of Ivan Maisky link to online catalogue
- NRA 38896 Henry Lamb, artist: letters from Stanley Spencer link to online catalogue
- NRA 38892 Peter Lanyon, painter: corresp with Roland Bowden link to online catalogue
- NRA 43448 Sir John Lavery, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41285 Charles Robert Leslie, painter, biographer of Constable: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38576 London Group link to online catalogue
- NRA 40103 James Bolivar Manson, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38817 Eileen Mayo, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41281 David Mayor, art publisher: corresp and papers rel to Fluxshoe touring exhibition and Beau Geste Pr link to online catalogue
- NRA 42387 Bernard Meninsky, drawing instructor and painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38897 John Minton, painter: letters, mainly to Edie Lamont, and misc papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38814 Charlotte Murray, psychiatrist and art collector: corresp and papers rel to Stanley Spencer link to online catalogue
- NRA 38661 Frederick Murray, engineer and patron of the arts: corresp with Ben Nicholson and other artists link to online catalogue
- NRA 38658 Victor Musgrave, art dealer and writer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39359 John Nash, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38569 Paul Nash, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43937 Paul Nash, artist: corresp and papers incl those of his wife Margaret link to online catalogue
- NRA 38657 New Vision Centre Gallery, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 40882 Katie Newmark, nee Bomberg: papers rel to David Bomberg, artist link to online catalogue
- NRA 43450 Algernon Newton, artist: papers and sketches link to online catalogue
- NRA 38659 Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter: letters to Herbert and Joyce Ward link to online catalogue
- NRA 42987 Winifred Nicholson, painter: corresp, mainly letters from Christopher Wood link to online catalogue
- NRA 38816 Noel Evelyn Norton, Lady Norton, art collector: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42347 Ernest Procter, painter and designer and Dod Procter, artist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43452 Gwendolen Mary Raverat: corresp, mainly letters from Stanley Spencer link to online catalogue
- NRA 42992 Claude Maurice Rogers, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43007 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, art gallery, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 40426 John Newstub Maurice Rothenstein, art historian and director of the Tate Gallery: corresp and paper link to online catalogue
- NRA 38596 Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, educationalist and art patron: corresp and papers rel to his art collect link to online catalogue
- NRA 38825 Norman Scarfe, writer and historian: corresp with Ronald Beckett rel to edition of John Constable's link to online catalogue
- NRA 38651 Seven and Five Society link to online catalogue
- NRA 38895 Elinor Bellingham Smith, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38656 Stanley Spencer, painter: letters to Mary and Louis Behrend link to online catalogue
- NRA 42599 Adrian Durham Stokes, writer: notebooks, corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40883 Graham Vivian Sutherland, painter: sketchbooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 19361 Tate Gallery Archives: misc accessions
- NRA 38586 Sir Henry Tate, 1st Bt, founder of the Tate Gallery: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 40422 Edith Thomas: corresp and papers rel to Kurt Schwitters, artist link to online catalogue
- NRA 38823 Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, fine art dealers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 38587 John Alfred Vinter, lithographer and painter: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 41284 Joan Warburton, painter: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38592 Reginald Howard Wilenski, art historian: corresp with Leon Underwood link to online catalogue
- NRA 42693 Zwemmer Gallery, London link to online catalogue
Accessions
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