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Coleridge Nether StoweySAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critics cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset Date: 1772 - 1834
John Ruskin SelfportraitJOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer as a young man. Date: 1819 - 1900
Charles Baudelaire, French poet, essayist, translatorCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator of Edgar Allan Poe
Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), English poet and critic, killed in the battle of Arras
Arnold BennettENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT English novelist, dramatist and critic Date: 1867 - 1931
Wagner / Schalk / LeipzigRICHARD WAGNER German composer and his son, Siegfried, slay the Critic Dragon and gain the treasure it was guarding, in a parody of the Nibelungen story
Samuel Johnson ReynoldsDR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist
John Ruskin / Photo / DeskJOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer Photograph sitting at his desk
A portrait of George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel prize winner. Date: 1946
Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musicianA Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute
Charles Dickens - English writerCharles Dickens (1812-1870) - English writer. Date: circa 1860
Ezra Pound / MorganEZRA LOOMIS POUND American poet, critic and editor
William Archer - The Theatre MagazineWilliam Archer, drama critic, translator and playwright - The Theatre Magazine, May 1886. 1886
John Ruskin (Fun)JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer satirised for his views on the aesthetic life Date: 1819 - 1900
Alec ( Sir Affable ) Knowles - Theatrical JournalistAlec (" Sir Affable" ) Knowles (1851-1917) - Theatrical Journalist and member of Londons notorious Pelican Club
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)Photographic portrait of G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton (1874-1936), the English critic, novelist and poet
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)Photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize winner, pictured in 1908
Robert Graves / MorganROBERT RANKE GRAVES British poet, novelist and critic, with a reference to his autobiography, " Goodbye To All That"
Sarah Margaret FullerSARAH MARGARET FULLER American critic and social reformer, associated with many leading writers and cultural figures of her day
S T Coleridge / G DaweSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critic
Lessing / Gotthold / MiniatuGOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING German dramatist and critic
Robert Graves / Powys EvanROBERT RANKE GRAVES British poet, novelist and critic as a young man
Diaghilev Photo SachaSERGEY PAVLOVICH DIAGHILEV Russian Art critic and impresario. A key figure in producing the Ballet Russes
Leigh Hunt / 1815 DrawingJAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT - English poet and essayist and critic of Prince Regent
Matthew ArnoldMATTHEW ARNOLD Writer and critic
S T Coleridge / NorthcoteSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critic
Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander HendersonCartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885
Marriage of Rebecca West, novelist and criticMarriage of Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, 1892-1983), novelist and critic. Seen here arriving at the church at Abinger, Surrey, with her sister, Dr Fairfield, who gave her away
Hippolyte Lucas, French writer and criticHippolyte Lucas (1807-1878), French writer and critic. He wrote mainly plays and opera libretti. Date: circa 1860s
Paul Bins, Count of Saint-Victor, French author and criticPaul Bins, Count of Saint-Victor (1827-1881), French author and critic. Date: circa late 1860s
Alphonse Karr, French author and journalistJean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890), French critic, journalist and novelist. Date: circa 1850s
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch Martinez - Spanish writerJuan Eugenio Hartzenbusch Martinez (1806-1880). Spanish writer. Representative of the romantic drama. Portrait. Chromolithography
The Little CriticAn oil painting of a young woman in a studio, holding a canvas portrait painting in her hands, judging the qualities of the art work. Date: circa 1919
Raymond McIntyreA self portrait painting of the New Zealand artist and art critic, Raymond Francis McIntyre, 1879-1933. With a career of exhibiting his work through organizations including the Royal Academy
Portrait of Edwin EvansA portrait painting of English music critic, Edwin Evans, who is leaning his elbow on the table, casually smoking a pipe. He wrote books which championed the music of Claude Debussy in particular
Catherine The Great Colour ScreenA design for a colour screen for the third and fourth acts of Catherine The Great, by British journalist, theatre critic and author, Huntly Carter. Date: circa 1915
Dr Max Nordau, author, autograph portraitDr Max Simon Nordau, Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic (1849-1923). Nordau was also co-founder of the Zionist Organisation with Theodor Herzl
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch Martinez (1806-1880). Spanish writer. Representative of the romantic drama. Portrait. Chromolithography
The CriticA marble sculpture of a man's head, who seems to be glaring judgmentally. Date: circa 1917
Ivor BrownThe Observer's drama critic - and later editor - Ivor Brown (1891-1974) at the Clifton Hotel in Blackpool, Date: 1940
Sir Edmund Gosse, English poet, author and critic, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927
Kenneth Tynan with J B PriestleyKenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Seen here (left) with J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984)
Bertrand Russell with others on a CND campaignBertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic
Bertrand Russell, British writer, pacifist etcBertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic. Seen here (left)
John Pilger, Australian journalist and documentary makerJohn Richard Pilger (b 1939), Australian journalist, writer and documentary film maker, based in London. Date: circa 1980s
Goat expresses opinion on Margaret ThatcherA white goat expresses its opinion on Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Its cardboard handwritten notice reads: Stop acting the goat
Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic and writerKenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Date: circa 1960s
Jacquetta Hawkes, Bertrand Russell and Stephen King-HallJacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996), British writer and archaeologist, Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician
