Esdaile, Katharine Ada "Mrs. Arundell Esdaile"

Date born: 1881

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Date died: 1950

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Art historian of British sculpture. Her writing as a sculptural art historian was succeeded by the work of Margaret Whinney (q.v.).

"Mrs. Esdaile's approach [to sculpture] was essentially antiquarian but tinged with an amiable, if sometimes slightly eccentric, passion for identifying the styles of different sculptors." (Summerson)

Home Country: United Kingdom

Sources: Summerson, John. "Margaret Dickens Whinney, 1894–1975." Proceedings of the British Academy 68 (1982): 640.

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