Benedict Nicolson Archive
Journals and correspondence compiled and collected by Nicolson in a personal, rather than professional, capacity throughout his life, documenting his career as an art historian as well as his rich and diverse social life.
Frank Simpson Archive
Correspondence, research notes and images of works of art compiled by Frank Simpson, librarian and amateur art historian, in the course of his life-long research on collections and collectors. Includes records from the London office of the art dealer, M. Knoedler & Co. dating from c1910s-1971.
Paul Oppé Archive
Research notes, correspondence, annotated exhibition and auction catalogues, and other associated material compiled by Paul Oppé throughout his career largely concerning eighteenth century British artists. Also includes material relating to Oppé's own collection of drawings and watercolours, as well as an extensive set of diaries and notebooks.
Brian Sewell Archive
Personal papers, draft articles about the arts and many other subjects, correspondence, research material, and photographs compiled by Brian Sewell, the journalist, writer and art historian over the course of his life.
Paul Joyce Archive
Research material largely focusing on the work of Victorian architect George Edmund Street (1824-1881) compiled by Paul Joyce, an architectural historian.
Oliver Millar Archive
Research material compiled by Oliver Millar throughout his career concerning public and private collections and collectors in the UK and abroad, and sixteenth and seventeenth century artists working in Britain.
Ellis Waterhouse Archive
Research notes, images and other associated material compiled by Waterhouse throughout his career concerning mainly sixteenth and seventeenth century British artists, but also public & private collections and collectors in the UK and abroad.
Brinsley Ford Archive
Research notes, correspondence and papers compiled by Brinsley Ford, and others, concerning the Grand Tour.
W.G. Constable Archive
Photographs, notes and correspondence compiled by W.G. Constable primarily in the course of his research for the Richard Wilson monograph, but also his work on the artists Constable and Flaxman.
Dennis Sharp Archive
Research material compiled by Dennis Sharp during his life-long interest in the architectural practice, Connell, Ward and Lucas. Contains, in particular, original material - including architectural drawings, photographs, correspondence and advertising material - from the Connell, Ward and Lucas practice, dating from the 1930s.
Howard Colvin Archive
Correspondence, postcards, articles, and notes collected and compiled by Howard Montagu Colvin in the course of his research for the Dictionary of British Architects (2nd-4th editions).
John Ingamells Archive
Photographs and research notes compiled by John Ingamells concerning the artists Philip Mercier and Andrea Soldi.
Paul Mellon Centre Institutional Archive
Records created by the Paul Mellon Centre, and its predecessor the Paul Mellon Foundation, in the course of its everyday business.
Hunting Art Prizes
Minutes, annual competition files, images, promotional materials and newspaper cuttings relating to the Hunting Art Prizes, 1980-2005
Christopher Wright Archive
Lists, exhibition catalogues and correspondence compiled by Christopher Wright and others in the course of his research for the compilation of two publications, one listing Old Master paintings (published 1976), and another listing British and Irish oil paintings (published 2006), in public collections in the United Kingdom.
Daphne Haldin Archive
Research notes and preparatory material for a proposed dictionary of female artists, created by otherwise unknown art historian, Daphne Haldin.
John Sunderland Archive
Research notes, images and correspondence compiled by Sunderland, mostly in relation to his research on the artist, John Hamilton Mortimer.
John Hayes Archive
Research notes, correspondence and images compiled by John Hayes throughout his career, relating mostly to his academic work on artists, Thomas Gainsborough, Graham Sutherland, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Rowlandson.