Marion Spielmann
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Marion Harry Alexander Spielmann (
Early life
Marion Spielmann (perhaps confusingly, several female relatives were similarly called Marian Spielmann) was born in
Spielmann was educated at
Career
By the 1880s, Spielmann had become "one of the most powerful figures in the late Victorian art world".
Spielmann was also active in arts administration and was closely involved with the controversy over the Chantrey Bequest, which led to his altering the conditions under which works were purchased for the bequest by the Royal Academy of Arts. He was the juror for England in the 1898 Brussels Fine Art Exhibition.[2] He also advised internationally on art collecting.[5] He was a member of the Athenaeum.
Spielmann was himself essentially a traditionalist who resisted the advance of Post-Impressionist and modern art. He typically emphasised masculine and decisive qualities in art, for example describing the sculptor George Anderson Lawson as "strong, manly and artistic".[6] For Spielmann, Millais epitomised these qualities. With the rise of Modernism, Spielmann's influence became increasingly marginal.
Family life
In 1880, Spielmann married his first cousin, Mabel Henriette Samuel (1862–1938), sister of Herbert Samuel; they had one son, Percy Edwin Spielmann (1881–1964). Mabel was herself an accomplished writer,[7] best known as a children's author, but also a biographer of Charlotte Brontë and a writer on the history of art. As a children's author, Mabel Spielmann is probably best known for her 1909 work: The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fancy.[8]
References
- JSTOR 29779887.
- ^ a b Marion H. Spielmann, The Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ a b Julie F. Codell, Marion Harry Spielmann and the Role of the Press in the Professionalization of Artists, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 7–15.
- ^ See Julie F. Codell, "‘The Artist's Cause at Heart’: Marion Harry Spielmann and the Late Victorian Art World," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, v. 71 (1989), pp. 139–63.
- ^ Partha Mitter, Art and nationalism in colonial India, 1850–1922, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 24
- ^ Elizabeth Prettejohn, After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England, Manchester University Press, 1999, p.243
- ^ "Mabel Henrietta Spielmann".
- ^ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of the Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy, by Mabel Henriette Spielmann".
External links
- "Archival material relating to Marion Spielmann". UK National Archives.
- Works by Marion Harry Spielmann at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Marion Spielmann at Internet Archive
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