The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Hilliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, water colour, there is a record of them all.
Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (February 16, 1905 - September 7, 1985) was an English art historian who specialized in Roman baroque and English painting.
He was Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (1949–52) and held the Barber chair at Birmingham University until his official retirement in 1970.