Dennis Larry Ashwell Farr CBE (2 April 1929 – 6 December 2006)[1] was a British art historian and curator.
[2][3] Dennis Farr was educated at Luton Grammar School and studied for his BA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University, from 1947 to 1950.
[1] Anthony Blunt, director of the Courtauld at the time, steered him towards doing his MA dissertation on the nineteenth-century painter William Etty.
He subsequently oversaw the transfer of the Courtauld's collection from Woburn Square to rather grander galleries at Somerset House, which opened to the public in 1990.
[5] William Etty (1958), Routledge & Kegan Paul[6] (With Chamot, Mary and Butlin, Martin) Catalogue of the Modern British School Collection (1964), Oldbourne Press, London (2 volumes) British Sculpture Since 1945 (1965), Tate, London[7] English Art, 1870-1940 (1978), Oxford University Press[8] (With Eva Chadwick) Lynn Chadwick, sculptor: with a complete illustrated catalogue, 1947-2003 (1991), Clarendon Press, Oxford Farr published an autobiographical article "in response to a suggestion from the Editor" in The Burlington Magazine in 2005, titled "A student at the Courtauld Institute".