Herbert Horne

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Herbert Percy Horne
Cimitero degli Allori, Herbert Percy Horne
Born1864 (1864)
London
Died1916 (aged 51–52)
Florence, Italy
Occupations

Herbert Percy Horne (1864 in London

The Century Guild Hobby Horse and The Hobby Horse for the Century Guild of Artists, which he founded with fellow architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo in 1882.[2]

Representative book design by Herbert Horne. (Against War by Erasmus, Merrymount Press, printed 1908).

Horne was closely associated with Arthur Symons and Selwyn Image and their mistress Muriel (Edith) Broadbent.[3] Later in life he settled in Florence, restoring a Renaissance palazzo into which he eventually moved. He first visited Italy in 1889 and kept an illustrated journal of his travels and art and architectural research. His monograph on Sandro Botticelli from 1908 is still recognised as of exceptional quality and thoroughness.

Death and commemoration

He donated his collection, of arts and handicrafts of the 14th and 15th centuries, to create the

Museo della Fondazione Horne
in Florence, where he died.

He is buried in the

Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo
(Italy).

Horne founded the Riccardi Press, a leading British private press that beginning in 1909 issued titles for the Medici Society and later under its own imprint.

Selected publications

References

  • Rediscovering Herbert Horne: Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian (1880–1920 British Authors Series, No 3), Ian Fletcher
  • The Walpole Society
    , LXIV (2002), pp. 69–125

Further reading

  • Codell, Julie. "Chelsea Bohemian: Herbert Percy Horne, the Critic as Artist," Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1978.
  • Codell, Julie."Horne's Botticelli: Pre-Raphaelite Modernity, Historiography and the Aesthetic of Intensity," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies, 2 (1989), 27–41.