William George Constable

After gaining a First in economics in 1910, he was awarded the McMahon Law Studentship by St John's for four years, then entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in May, 1914.

While convalescing, Constable reworked and resubmitted an existing thesis to St John's and was elected a Fellow of the College, a position he held from January 1919 to the end of 1921.

In 1923, he joined the National Gallery, where he stayed for eight years, the last two as assistant director, and became an art critic for the New Statesman and the Saturday Review.

In 1935, he succeeded Roger Fry as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge, while continuing as Director of the Courtauld.

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art holds biographical material as well as personal and professional correspondence and research papers belonging to Constable.

William George Constable (left) was Curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for many years. Sir Herbert Read was a British art historian. They're pictured at a garden party in Lexington, Massachusetts.