Alan Clutton-Brock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alan Clutton-Brock

English art critic

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Weybridge, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1976

Profession: painter, art critic

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Alan Francis Clutton-Brock (8 October 1904 – 18 December 1976) was an English art critic and essayist.
Clutton-Brock was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the son of Arthur Clutton-Brock.
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.He was art critic of The Times, 1945–55, a trustee of the National Gallery, and Slade Professor of Fine Art, at Cambridge, 1955–58.
He wrote books of art criticism, a biography of William Blake, and a detective story, Murder at Liberty Hall.
During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.Clutton-Brock was twice married.
His first wife, Shelagh, née Archer, with whom he had a daughter (Juliet Clutton-Brock) and a son, died in a road accident in 1936.
In the same year he married Barbara Foy Mitchell, with whom he had a daughter.
He died at his home, Chastleton House, Oxfordshire, aged 72.