| Description | Notes, essays, lectures, correspondence and sketches by William Gaunt. , Notes on William Hogarth (fiche 1), 'Outline of British Watercolour' (1-2), notes on marine painting (2), notes on William Blake (2), 'Creative Forces in British Painting: Gainsborough and Constable' (2), 'British Watercolourists and the Norwich School of Painters' (2-3), 'Richard Dadd' (3), 'Rudolph Ackerman and his Artist Collaborators' (3), 'Victorian Narrative Painting and Some Aspects of Victorian Painting' (3), lecture notes on the art of the Pre-Raphaelites (3), notes on members of the Pre-Raphelite brotherhood (3), 'The Rossetti Family' (3), notes on letters to Mr George Rae (3-4), nineteenth century recollections of the Pre-Raphelite brotherhood and note on Degas (4), notes on Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (4), Oxford lectures (Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelites, Morris) (4-5), 'Pre-Raphelite Tradegy' correspondence (5-6), 'Aesthetic Adventure' correspondence (6-7), notes on late Victorian painters (7), 'Victorian Olympus' correspondence (7), outline for Ruskin film and Whistler libel suit (7), notes on Whistler (7), notes on Swinburne (7-8), 'Classic art and its relation to the nineteenth century' (8), 'Aspects of the literature of art' (8), notes on Britich chronology (8), 'Robert Bevan' (8), 'The Royal Cafe Exhibition' (8-9), Charles Cundall correspondence and notes (9-10), notes on Whistler, Augustus John and Kokoschka (10), notes on Expressionism and Surrealism (10-11), 'The De Chirico Paintings' (11), correspondence re 'March of the Moderns' (11), 'Laboratory of Vantongerloo' (11), lecture 'Modern Developments in British Painting' (11), 'Some Comparisons of Sculpture Past and Present' (11), letter re J.B. Manson as director of Tate (11), 'Heatherey's Art School' (11-12), notes on colour (12), sketchbook of drawings (12-13), letters to WG from various correspondents re paintings (13), correspondence re 'Bandits in a Landscape' (13), correspondence (13-15), 'English painting at the beginning of the twentieth century' by Horace Brodzky (15-16). |
| Administrative History | William Gaunt was born in 1900, the son of the artist William Gaunt. He attended the Ruskin School whilst studying at Worcester College, Oxford, and later studied at Westminster School of Art between 1924 and 1925. He exhibited at the RA and other major London galleries, and wrote on a wide range of subjects for example, 'The Pre-Raphelite Tragedy', 1941 and 'Court Painting in England', 1930. During the 1930s he travelled in Greece, Palestine and Egypt. William Gaunt was known as a writer, art critic and painter of townscapes, landscapes and figures in watercolours. |