Author

Marcus B. Huish

English barrister and art collector

Born
1843
Died
1921
Nationality
United Kingdom
Occupation
Art collector, art historian, jurist and barrister

Life and work

Marcus Bourne Huish (25 November 1843 – 4 May 1921) was an English barrister, writer and art dealer.

He was the son of Marcus Huish of Castle Donington and his wife Margaret Jane Bourne. His mother died in 1847 and in 1849 his father remarried Frances Sarah Darwin, daughter of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin. Bourne was the editor of The Art Journal from 1881 to 1892 and was the first managing director of the Fine Art Society. He was a Japanophile and was given the honour of Chevalier of the Order of the Sacred Treasure. He was the Honorary Librarian of The Japan Society of the UK.

Books

Charles Méryon, sailor, engraver, and etcher: a memoir and complete descriptive catalogue of his works / translated from the French of Philip Burty by Marcus B. Huish. Charles Méryon et son œuvre.English. Fine Art Society. 1879.

Japan and its art. The Fine art society, limited. 1889.

Birket Foster; his life and work. Art Journal Office. 1890; 32 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Chinese snuff bottles of stone, porcelain, and glass utilized to uprear a fabric of fancies concerning China and the Chinese, by Marcus B. Huish, arts-man to the Sette of odd volumes. 1895.

Huish, Marcus Bourne (1898). Old Stuart genealogy: a paper read before ye Sette of Odd Volumes February 5th, 1897: in ye first year of ye reign of His Oddship Sir Stuart Knill, Baronet, and ye sixtieth year of ye reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria / by Marcus B. Huish.

Greek terra-cotta statuettes, their origin, evolution, and uses. J. Murray. 1900.

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Collection

Books by Marcus B. Huish

2 books