Burlington Fine Arts Club

Founded in London in 1866, the Burlington Fine Arts Club was not an individual author but a private members' club devoted to the study of fine art and archaeology. It brought together collectors, historians, and connoisseurs, and became especially well known for its carefully organized exhibitions and scholarly catalogues.

The club met at 17 Savile Row in London and helped shape late 19th- and early 20th-century art scholarship by focusing attention on prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, and other fields that were often treated with unusual seriousness for the time. Many of its catalogues were produced for exhibitions and remain valuable as reference works.

Because this is an organization rather than a single person, a standard author portrait is not really available. A commonly used image associated with the club is a photograph of its Savile Row premises, but that is a building rather than a personal portrait, so no profile image is included here.