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and art historian. Bertram was the great-grandfather of actor

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Works

*''English Portraiture in the National Portrait Gallery'' (1924) *''The Pool'' (1926) novel *''Here We Ride'' (1927) novel *''The Life of Sir Peter-Paul Rubens'' (1928) *''Velázquez'' (1928) *''To the Mountains'' (1929) *''The Sword Falls'' (1930) *''Picasso'' (1930) *''Matisse'' (1930) *''They Came to the Castle'' (1932) *''Pavements and Peaks: Impressions of Travel in Germany and Austria'' (1933) *''Favourite British Paintings'' (1934) *''The House : A Machine for Living in'' (1935) *''Men Adrift'' (1935) *''The King Sees Red'' (1936) *''Like the Phoenix'' (1936) novel *''Design in Everyday Things'' (1937) *''Ode to a Bulging Member'' (1937) *''Design in Daily Life'' (1937) *''Design'' (1938) *''Contemporary Painting in Europe'' (1939) *''Bright Defiler'' (1940) *''Jan Vermeer of Delft'' (1948) *''William Blake'' (1948) *''Hans Holbein the Younger'' (1948) *''Sandro Botticelli'' (1948) *''Vermeer'' (1948) *''Piero della Francesca'' (1949) *''Pieter Bruegel the Elder'' (1949) *''Michelangelo'' (1949) *''Jean-Augustine-Dominique Ingres'' (1949) *''El Greco'' (1949) *''Hogarth'' (1949) *''The Van Eycks : Hubert & Jan'' (1950) *''Delacroix'' (1950) *''The Pleasures Of Poverty: An Argument and an Anthology'' (1950) *''Hieronymus Bosch'' (1950) *''Grunewald'' (1950) *''Rubens'' (1950) *''Gauguin'' (1950) *''Giotto'' (1951) *''A Century of British Painting 1851-1951'' (1951) *''Paul Nash: The Portrait of an Artist'' (1955) *''Poet and Painter: Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash 1910-1946'' (1955); editor with Claude Colleer Abbott *''Rembrandt'' (1955) *''Sickert'' (1955) *''Modigliani'' (1965) *''One Thousand Years of Drawing'' (1966) *''Florentine Sculpture'' (1969)

References

1897 births 1978 deaths British art critics British art historians {{UK-art-historian-stub