Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
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Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900) was a Scottish art critic, a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. His father was the lighthouse engineer Alan Stevenson. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, graduated with the master's degree from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and studied art in the Edinburgh School of Art and in Paris and Antwerp, but never practiced painting extensively. From 1889 to 1893 he was professor of fine arts at University College, Liverpool, and from 1893 art critic on the Pall Mall Gazette. He was one of the most gifted and just of British critics.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- Engraving (1886)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1898)
- The Art of Velasquez (1895)
- Velasquez (1898)
- Essay on Raeburn.
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