| Code | DS/UK/1805 |
| Dates | 1872-1952 |
| Person Name | Witt; Sir Robert Clermont (1872-1952) |
| Surname | Witt |
| Forenames | Sir Robert Clermont |
| Activity | Lawyer, art historian and creator of the research photographs collection of the University of London. Worked as attorney with Stephenson, Harwood, and Tatham (1897-); founded the National Art Collections Fund (1902) together with David Lindsay, Wallace Collection keeper Claude Phillips, the artist D. S. MacColl and the art museum director Roger Fry, honorary secretary (1902-1920); Trustee of the National Gallery (1916-1940) and Trustee of the Tate Gallery (1916-1931); Chair of the Art Collections Fund (1920); founded the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1932) together with Samuel Courtauld and Arthur Hamilton Lee . |
| Relationships | Son of Gustavus Andreas Witt and Johanna Frederiko Helene Witt, née de Clermont; married Mary Helene Marten (1899); |
| History | Studied law, qualified as a solicitor (attorney) in 1897; C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1918; knighted (1922); |
| Source | Dictionary of National Biography; Troutman, Philip, Italian Old Master Drawings, Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery. Wellington, New Zealand: National Gallery, 1973; [obituary:] "Sir Robert Witt." The Times (London) Mar 27, 1952, p. 8; "Sir Robert Clermont Witt", in: dictionary of art historians [online version], URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/wittr.htm> [accessed 28/08/2011] |
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