author
Sir Frederick Wedmore
1844–1921
Best known as an art critic with a novelist’s eye, this late-Victorian man of letters wrote gracefully about painting, printmaking, and literary life. His work helped shape how English readers looked at etching, French art, and artists such as Whistler.
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 in 1844 and educated in part in Lausanne and Paris, Sir Frederick Wedmore became one of the best-known British art critics and literary figures of his time. He wrote widely on art, especially etching and French painting, and built a reputation for elegant, cultivated criticism as well as fiction and reminiscence.
Alongside his criticism, Wedmore published novels, essays, and books on artists and printmaking. He is especially associated with writing on James McNeill Whistler and with helping to raise the status of etching in Britain. He was knighted in 1912 and later published Memories, a volume of social and literary recollections.
Wedmore died in 1921. Today he is remembered less as a single-book author than as a lively, influential guide to the artistic world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.