Painter, writer and collector, born in Calcutta, India, became the Third Earl of Lytton. After education at Eton College, Neville Lytton attended L’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, also working in the studio of Léon Bonnet. He exhibited extensively at Alpine Club Gallery, Carfax Gallery and Beaux Arts Gallery, also RA, NEAC, RP and elsewhere. Among the subjects of portraits by him were Bernard Shaw and the poet Alice Meynell. Lytton wrote a number of books on subjects as varied as the English country gentleman, France and his monograph Water-colour, originally a lecture to the Art Workers’ Guild in 1907. Lytton was a friend of the noted collector of English pictures Eddie Marsh, introducing him to traditional watercolours, although he disapproved of Marsh’s later inclination towards modern British works.