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Marion Henry Alexander Spielmann
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1858.05.22
Date of death: 1948.10.02
Category: journalist, writer, art
Date of birth: 1858.05.22
Date of death: 1948.10.02
Category: journalist, writer, art
Identity:
Marion Henry Alexander Spielmann, journalist and writer on art, married Mabel Henrietta Samuel in December 1880.
Life:
Spielmann was the editor of The Magazine of Art from 1887-1904. He was the art critic of the Graphic (1882-1914), the Pall Mall Gazette (1883-7), the Morning Post, the Globe and others. He bought Study in Grey for the Portrait of F. R. Leyland y095 at Whistler's bankruptcy sale in 1880. He was a member of The Arts Club 1894 until at least 1920.
Bibliography:
Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 1997.
