Alistair Smart

Peter Alistair Marshall Smart (30 April 1922–21 December 1992) was a 20th-century British historian and expert on Allan Ramsay.

He then changed direction again and spent three years at Edinburgh College of Art under Sir William George Gillies.

He then undertook postgraduate studies at the University of British Columbia and the Institute of Fine Arts in New York.

[1] He was Head of the Fine Art Department at the University of Nottingham from 1956 to 1982, being granted his professorship in 1963.

He is buried in the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in the west of the city.