Roger Fry

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RF was an art critic and art historian who during the earlier part of the twentieth century was deeply influential in turning British art towards modernism.

Milestones

14 December 1866
RF , future painter and art critic, was born in London, into a Quaker family of nine children, of whom eight survived.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.
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Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
9 September 1934
RF , painter and art critic, died in London.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.
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Biography

Birth, Family, Education

14 December 1866
RF , future painter and art critic, was born in London, into a Quaker family of nine children, of whom eight survived.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.
246
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
95
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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