William Martin Conway

Sir William Martin Conway (April 12 1856 - April 19 1937), English art critic and mountaineer, was the son of Reverend William Conway, afterwards canon of Westminster. W.M. Conway was born in Rochester, England, and educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became interested in early printing and engraving, and in 1880 made a tour of the principal libraries of Europe in pursuit of his studies, the result appearing in 1884 as a History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century. His later works on art included:

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