Benedict Nicolson

Benedict Nicolson MVO (* August 6, 1914, † May 22, 1978 ) was an English art historian and long-time editor of Burlington Magazine.

He was the elder son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. His brother Nigel was a writer and politician, and works of the company of his parents.

Nicolson studied at Eton and Oxford History of Art. He was a student of Bernard Berenson, who said of him that Nicolson " a deep well with crystal clear water and that was worth the trouble to scoop it up from the depths of " quasi. Nicolson's main interest was initially the early Italian and contemporary art. With some friends, he founded the Oxford " Florentine Club", appeared in the famous guest speakers such as Kenneth Clark and Herbert Read. On the advice of Kenneth Clark in 1939 he was administrator of the royal collections of paintings, but then the Second World War broke out and he had to go to military action in the Middle East. 1947, at the age of 32 years, he was editor of the famous journal Burlington Magazine. In April 1977, we paid tribute to his thirty years of tireless conducting activities for this magazine with a special item.

As art historians Nicolson was intensely occupied with the biographies of famous artists and has published numerous reviews of art exhibitions. He wrote treatises on the painters of Ferrara (1950), about Hendrick ter Brugghen ( 1558 ) and Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1968), about the art inventory of the London Foundling Hospital, about Gustave Courbet (1973 ), Georges de la Tour (1974) and the followers of Caravaggio (1979 posthumous ).

1960 Nicolson wrote a stylistically unified group of 39 unsigned and undated images, the night scenes in the style of Caravaggio showed an anonymous painter, whom he called " Candlelight Master" ( Master of candlelight ) and he identified in 1964 as Trophime Bigot.

• Art historian
• Briton
• Member of the Royal Victorian Order
• Born in 1914
• Died in 1978
• Man