Frederick Wedmore (9 July 1844 – 25 February 1921) was a British art critic and man of letters.[1][2]
Frederick Wedmore
Wedmore was born at Richmond Hill,[3]Clifton, the eldest son of Thomas Wedmore of Druids Stoke, Stoke Bishop. His family were Quakers, and he was educated at a Quaker private school and then in Lausanne and Paris. After a short experience of journalism in Bristol he came to London in 1868, and began to write for The Spectator. His early works included two novels, but the best examples of his prose are perhaps to be found in his volumes of short stories, Pastorals of France (1877), Renunciations (1893), Orgeas and Miradou (1896), reprinted in 1905 as A Dream of Provence.[1]
In 1900 he published another novel, The Collapse of the Penitent. As early as 1878 he had begun a long connection with the London Standard as art critic. He began his studies on etching with a noteworthy paper in The Nineteenth Century (1877–1878) on the etchings of Charles Meryon. This was followed by The Four Masters of Etching (1883), with original etchings by Sir FS Haden, Jules Jacquemart [fr], JM Whistler, and Alphonse Legros; Etching in England (1895); an English edition (1894) of E Michel's Rembrandt: His Life, His Works, and His Time In Two Volumes;[4] and a study and a catalogue of Whistler's Etchings (1886, 2nd edition 1899). His other works include Studies in English Art (2 vols., 1876–80), The Masters of Genre Painting (1880), On Books and Arts (1899), English Water Colour (1902), Turner and Ruskin (2 vols., 1900).[1]
He was knighted in 1912. He published that year his Memories, a book of reminiscences, social and literary. He also published Painters and Painting (1913) and a novel, Brenda Walks On (1916). He died at Sevenoaks.[5]
Familyedit
His daughter, Millicent Wedmore (born 1879), herself the author of two volumes of verse, helped him to edit during World War IPoems of the Love and Pride of England.[5]
Notesedit
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wedmore, Frederick". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 466.
^"Wedmore, Frederick". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1860.
^Richmond Hill is a street in Clifton, Bristol that runs roughly west to east and has a midpoint about 150 meters south of The Lido Bristol.
^"Rembrandt: His Life, His Works, and His Time In Two Volumes: Emile. Florence Simmonds, Translator. Frederick Wedmore, Editor Michel". amazon.com.
^ ab One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Wedmore, Sir Frederick". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 964.
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Wedmore, Frederick (1909). Some of the moderns. London: Vine & Co.
Works by Frederick Wedmore at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
April 16, 2024
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