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Guy Dickins
1881–1916
A gifted classical archaeologist and art historian, he focused on Greek sculpture and left behind work that remained useful even after his early death in the First World War. His writing is clear, scholarly, and shaped by firsthand study of major European collections.
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Hellenistic sculpture
by Guy Dickins
About the author
Born in 1881, Guy Dickins was a British classical scholar whose main field was ancient Greek sculpture. He studied at New College, Oxford, later worked in classical archaeology, and became known for careful research on the Acropolis Museum and on Hellenistic art.
Before the war, he published important scholarly work, including Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, Volume I: Archaic Sculpture and studies that were later gathered into Hellenistic Sculpture. Contemporary accounts note that he had visited many of Europe's museums, building the close visual knowledge that gives his work its authority.
Dickins served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War and died of wounds in July 1916 after action on the Somme. Because his career was cut short so early, his books can feel especially poignant: they show the promise of a scholar who had already made a real mark on the study of classical art.