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! ! ! InformARTES! ! NEWSLETTER OF ARTES IBERIAN & LATIN AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE GROUP ! ISSUE 13 WINTER 2013 !1 ! ! ! Tribute to Nigel Glendinning (1929-2013) ! Earlier this year we heard with great sadness of the death of our founding joint President Nigel Glendinning, who provid- ed unstinting support for ARTES activities and publications from its inception in 2000 right up to his sudden death aged 83. In tribute to him we reprint below an obituary written by Marjorie Trusted (ARTES founding member and Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and first published in April 2013 issue of The Art Newspaper. Another ARTES founding member, Hilary Macartney, also produced an obituary for The Burlington Maga- zine, which was published in the July 2013 issue p. 488. ! ! ! !1 ! ! InformARTES NEWSLETTER OF ARTES IBERIAN & LATIN AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE GROUP ISSUE 13, WINTER 2013 ! Professor Nigel Glendinning, died 23 February 2013 ! The historian and art historian Nigel Glendinning died at his home in East London after a heart attack on 23 February, 2013, aged 83. Nigel’s scholarly acumen, along with his constant willingness to share his academic knowledge, were abun- dantly evident to all who knew him. As a profoundly sage and benevolent writer and teacher, he had few parallels in the Hispanic world. He was known primarily as a Goya specialist, but had a far-reaching acquaintance, indeed comfortable familiarity, with Spanish art, history and literature, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. ! Oliver Nigel Valentine Glendinning was born in East Sheen, Surrey in October 1929 to a creative family. His mother, Olive, née Ledward, was the sister of the sculptor Gilbert Ledward (1888-1960), and had worked as an assistant to the novelist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) in the 1920s.
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