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 et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
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Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 September 1934

RF , painter and art critic, died in London.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
246

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 et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
246
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
95
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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