Harold Woodbury Parsons

Harold Woodbury Parsons (July 13, 1882[1][2][3] – May 27, 1967) was an American art historian and dealer from Lynn, Massachusetts.

In 1930 he was brought in as art advisor to the Nelson-Atkins Museum.

[4] In 1960, he was instrumental in exposing certain supposed Etruscan masterpieces as fakes.

[5][6][7][8] Parsons died in Rome, aged 85, of myocardiosclerosis and heart failure.

His ashes were interred at Campo Verano.