author
T. Martin Wood
1875–1919
A journalist and art critic with a sharp eye for painters and illustrators, he wrote lively early-20th-century books on figures such as Whistler, Sargent, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and George du Maurier. His work opens a window onto how Victorian and Edwardian art was seen by a thoughtful contemporary.
4 Audiobooks
Sargent
by T. Martin Wood
George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians
by T. Martin Wood
Whistler
by T. Martin Wood
Drawings of Rossetti
by T. Martin Wood
About the author
T. Martin Wood was a British journalist and art critic, active in the early 1900s and remembered for writing accessible books about major artists and illustrators. Reliable library and book records identify him as living from 1875 to 1919.
He contributed criticism to The Studio, the influential magazine of fine and applied art, and he also published standalone studies on artists including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and George du Maurier. His writing focused on both the work itself and the personality behind it, which helps give his books a direct, readable quality.
Today, Wood is best known as a guide to the art world of his own time. For modern listeners and readers, his books are valuable not just for the artists they cover, but for the way they capture early-20th-century taste, admiration, and debate around famous creative figures.