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  1. Lionel Benedict Nicolson MVO (6 August 1914 – 22 May 1978) was a British art historian and author. He was the author of The Painters of Ferrara (1950) and Hendrick Terbrugghen (1958). Biography. Nicolson was born on 6 August 1914. He was the elder son of authors Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother of writer and politician Nigel.

  2. Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978) was a prominent art historian and the longest-serving Editor of the Burlington Magazine. He wrote books on seventeenth-century art, Caravaggio, Seurat and Courbet, and was known for his wit and charm.

  3. Mar 4, 2024 · As Deputy Surveyor of the King’s Pictures (1939–1947) and editor of the Burlington Magazine (1947–1978), Nicolson played a prominent role in the British art world during a period of change and...

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  6. Benedict Nicolson. Letter to Everett Fahy. May 20, 1971, supports the picture's attribution to La Tour following an interview with Dom de Laborde, a monk at the Abbé of Solesmes (Sarthe), who could account for the painting's whereabouts as far back as the nineteenth century. Pierre Rosenberg and Jacques Thuillier. Georges de La Tour. Exh. cat ...

  7. Benedict Nicolson: becoming an art historian in the 1930s by CAROLINE ELAM, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington editing the burlington magazine was the centre of Benedict Nicolson's life for over thirty years. Explaining his decision to give up his post as Deputy Surveyor of the King's Pictures, he wrote to Bernard Berenson in 1949:

  8. The main source for this provenance is Benedict Nicolson's 1968 catalogue raisonné, cat. no. 330 [Nicolson, Benedict. "Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light." London and New Work: Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, Routledge and K. Paul; Pantheon Books, 1968, cat. no. 330, p. 269]. Other supporting documents are noted.

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