biography
pronunciation:
[layver]
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| lived:
| (1899–1975)
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| biography:
| Writer and art critic, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He won the Newdigate Prize for verse at Oxford in 1921, and later books of verse include His Last Sebastian (1922) and Ladies' Mistakes (1933). He was assistant keeper, then keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1922–59). His critical books on art include French Painting and the 19th century (1937), and Fragonard (1956). He also wrote on the history of English costume in Taste and Fashion (1937), and other works. |
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