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Sir Frederick Wedmore
1844–1921
A leading Victorian art critic and essayist, he wrote with equal feeling about painting, etching, books, and city life. His work helped shape how late-19th-century readers thought about artists such as Whistler and the art of printmaking.
4 Audiobooks
On books and arts
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
Four Masters of Etching
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
Fine prints
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
Etching in England With 50 illustrations.
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
About the author
Born in Clifton on 9 July 1844, Frederick Wedmore became one of the best-known British art critics and literary essayists of his time. He was educated in England and abroad, including in Lausanne and Paris, and built a career that moved easily between journalism, criticism, and creative writing.
Wedmore is especially remembered for his writing on art, particularly etching and the work of James McNeill Whistler. Alongside criticism, he also published essays, short fiction, poetry, and memoir, showing a wide-ranging literary life rather than a single narrow specialty.
He was knighted in 1912 and published Memories that same year. Wedmore died on 25 February 1921, leaving behind a body of work that linked the worlds of literature and visual art in a lively, accessible way.