| Admin/Biog History | Alexander Joseph Finberg, 1866-1939 was an art historian and expert on J.M.W. Turner. He was a founder of the Walpole Society, and was commissioned in 1905 to catalogue and organise the paintings in the Turner Bequest. |
| Description | This material comprises forty-one pages of cuttings of articles about the Turner Bequest and reviews of the following publications by Alexander Finberg:
-Finberg, A.J. (1905) The English water-colour painters. London: Duckworth
-Finberg, A.J. (1911) Turner's sketches and drawings. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
-Finberg, A.J., et al. (1919) 'Early English water-colour drawings by the great masters', The Studio, Special number
-Finberg, A.J. (1919) The paintings of D.Y. Cameron. London: The Studio
See also Loose cuttings, 1906-1924 (Part 2) (FHS/3/7/3) for material found inserted into this volume which also relates to the above. |