Robert Witt (art historian)
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Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952) was a British art historian, who, along with Samuel Courtauld and Lord Lee of Fareham, was a co-founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Witt read history at New College, Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1897. In 1899 he married Mary Marten, a fellow Oxford student who, like him, collected photographs and reproductions of works of art. Their joint collection became the Witt Library, the world's largest archive of paintings and drawings, which he bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute upon its foundation in 1931.
Witt joined the National Art Collections Fund in 1903 and was its second chairman from 1921 to 1945.
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