Selwyn Brinton

Selwyn John Curwen Brinton was a British art historian, journalist, and writer on art, born in 1859 and died in 1940. Records linked through library and archival sources identify him as an author on Renaissance and European art, and his published work shows a steady interest in explaining painting, sculpture, and architecture to students and travelers.

His books include studies such as The Renaissance in Italian Art, Perugino, Correggio, and The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature. He also translated and edited art and theatre-related works, and several early twentieth-century volumes name him as the editor of the Langham Series, an illustrated run of art monographs aimed at a broad reading public.

A confirmed portrait was not easy to verify from the available pages, so none is included here. Even so, the surviving catalog records and digitized books leave a clear impression of a writer who cared about making visual culture readable, organized, and inviting.