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Fitz Roy Carrington

1869–1954

An English-born American editor and critic, he became a respected authority on old master prints and helped shape how museum audiences and collectors understood European printmaking. His career joined sharp scholarship with a talent for making specialized art history more accessible.

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Engravers and Etchers

Engravers and Etchers

by Fitz Roy Carrington

About the author

Born in Surbiton, Surrey, on November 6, 1869, Fitz Roy Carrington later built his career in the United States and became best known as an editor, writer, and expert on prints, especially works from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sources agree that he developed a strong reputation in the study of European printmaking and was widely recognized for his knowledge of old master prints.

Carrington wrote and edited art criticism and scholarship at a time when museums, collectors, and publishers were helping create a broader public audience for print history. Rather than being remembered mainly as a novelist or poet, he is chiefly associated with the world of art publishing, connoisseurship, and the interpretation of historic engravings and woodcuts.

He died on December 31, 1954. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources available here, so no profile image is included.