Virginia surtees biography

          Virginia Surtees, who has died aged , was an art historian whose two-volume catalogue of the complete works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, published in.

          Virginia Surtees was a British art historian and author.

        1. Art historian and leading scholar of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement; produced the definitive reference book for Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
        2. Virginia Surtees, who has died aged , was an art historian whose two-volume catalogue of the complete works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, published in
        3. Virginia Surtees, née Bell, was born in London, a daughter of Edward Bell, an American diplomat, and his wife Bertha.
        4. Virginia Surtees (9th January – 22nd September ) was an English art historian and author.

          5. Virginia Surtees



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          Virginia Surtees (9th January 1917 – 22nd September 2017) was an English art historian and author.

          Surtees lived to the fine old age of one hundred and is best remembered as an 'Art historian who broke new ground in the study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelite painting'.[1]

          In 1971, Surtees published a catalogue raisonné of Rossetti's works, and thereby triggered a flourish of academic attention upon the then-neglected, and perhaps even then-derided, artist.

          Surtees background was one of wealth and privilege.

          She was born in London; her father was Edward Bell, an American diplomat and her mother, Bertha who was known as Etelka, was a descendant of the nineteenth century antiquarian Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth Hall, County Durham.[2]



          Mainsforth Hall – now demolished

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