Maurice W. Brockwell

Maurice Walter Brockwell (1869–1958) was an English art writer, lecturer, and curator who specialized in Renaissance and especially Flemish painting. Sources from the National Gallery and the Dictionary of Art Historians describe him as an art writer and lecturer, and place his work within the study of Northern Renaissance art.

Over the course of his career, he was connected with major art collections and scholarly circles. He worked with the National Gallery early on, later spent time in Florence in the circle of Bernard Berenson at Villa I Tatti, and went on to serve as curator of the Cook Collection at Doughty House. His writing was known for favoring documented facts over romantic stories, which gave his books a practical, trustworthy tone.

Brockwell wrote widely for general readers as well as art lovers, publishing studies of Leonardo da Vinci, the Van Eycks, and other artists and collections. That mix of scholarship and accessibility helps explain why his work still appears in library catalogs, archives, and reprints today.