Cecil Gould
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Cecil Gould | |
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Born | Cecil Hilton Monk Gould 24 May 1918 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Died | 7 April 1994 | (aged 75)
Occupation | Art historian, curator |
Relatives | Rupert Gould (father) Muriel Estall (mother) Jocelyne Stacey (sister) |
Cecil Hilton Monk Gould (24 May 1918 – 7 April 1994) was a British
Life
Born in London in 1918, Gould was the son of Admiralty Lieutenant-Commander
During the
After the war, he joined the National Gallery staff in 1946 and worked there until his retirement in 1987. He was Keeper and deputy director for the last five years of his tenure. Upon retiring from the National Gallery he moved to Thorncombe in West Dorset.[3] He was a prolific author, publishing many books and articles during his career.
In 1970, Gould established that the National Gallery's
In his last years Gould lived with his younger sister Jocelyne Stacey in the village of Thorncombe, Dorset. Towards the end of his life, with his health declining, Cecil was made a correspondant (foreign associate) of the Institut de France.[4] He developed a brain tumour and, after a short illness, died on 7 April 1994. Gould never married and was survived by Jocelyne.
A collection of Gould's large-format black-and-white photographs of Islamic architecture in Cairo, taken during World War II, is in the
Gould was portrayed during his childhood in the 2000 Channel 4 television drama about John Harrison's chronometers, Longitude. He was played by child actor Joe Williams.[6]
Partial bibliography
- The Sixteenth Century Venetian School 1959 (National Gallery Catalogue Series)
- The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools (excluding the Venetian) 1962 (National Gallery Catalogue Series)
- The last two were revised and combined as: The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools 1975 (National Gallery Catalogue Series) ISBN 978-0-947645-22-9
- Michelangelo: Battle of Cascina 1966 University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Titian 1969 Hamlyn
- (with Martin Davies) French School: Early 19th Century Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc. 1970 (National Gallery Catalogue Series)
- Leonardo: The Artist and the Non-Artist 1975 Weidenfeld and Nicolson ISBN 978-0-297-77000-8
- The Paintings of Correggio 1978 Cornell University Press
- Bernini in France: An Episode in Seventeenth Century History 1981 Weidenfeld and Nicolson ISBN 978-0-297-77944-5
- Parmigianino 1995 Abbeville Press ISBN 978-1-55859-892-8
Sources
- Betts, Jonathan (2006) Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R. T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-856802-9.
- Levey, Michael (1994) 'Cecil Gould (1918–94)', The Burlington Magazine, Volume 136, 554.
References
- ^ "Gould, Capt. Cecil | Monuments Men Foundation". MonumentsMenFdn. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Dictionary of Art Historians". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Obituary: Cecil Gould". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ admin (21 February 2018). "Gould, Cecil". Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 515; [obituaries:] "Cecil Gould." Times (London) 26 April 1994; Mullaly, Terrence. "Cecil Gould." Independent (London), 3 June 1994, p. 28; Levey, Michael. "Cecil Gould (1918-94)." Burlington Magazine 136, no. 1097 (August 1994), p. 554. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ IMDb