Arthur Haythorne Studd (19 November 1863 – 26 January 1919) was an English first-class

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er, painter and art collector. The son of Edward Studd and his second wife, Dorothy, he was born in November 1863 at Billesdon, Leicestershire. He was educated at

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, before going up to

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. Although he did not play

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for

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, he did play for A. J. Webbe's personal XI ''against'' Cambridge University in 1885. He graduated from Cambridge in 1888, having played three first-class matches for the

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during his final year, in addition to making a fourth appearance for the MCC in 1888. In five first-class matches, Studd scored 104 runs with a high score of 47. He played minor matches for

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in 1888, then considered a second-class county. Studd's main interest was art and he studied in

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in at the

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in 1888–89. He met and befriended

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in 1890 and in 1892 he met the artist

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, with the two becoming neighbours in 1894 when they moved to

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. He travelled with Gauguin to

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in 1897–98. He later acquired a number of Whistler's works, leaving them to the

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. Studd himself exhibited his own art regularly in the first decade of the 1900s, with some his works also held by the Tate Gallery. Studd's brothers, known colloquially as the

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, all played first-class cricket. Studd died at

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in January 1919.

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