British painter, critic, lecturer, and administrator. He was born in Glasgow and studied at University College London and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated in classics in 1884. In the next few years he travelled extensively on the Continent and also studied at Westminster School of Art under Frederick *Brown and at the *Slade School under *Legros. From 1890 to 1895 he was art critic of The Spectator and from 1896 to 1906 of The Saturday Review (and again from 1921 until 1930, when he moved to the newly founded Week-end Review). In these positions he helped to influence public taste in favour of *Impressionism, and his book Nineteenth Century Art (1902) contains one of the earliest balanced assessments of the movement. He did not care for the *Post-Impressionists, however, and thought that *Cézanne must have suffered from an eye defect.