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Rupert Forbes Gunnis (11 March 1899 – 31 July 1965) was an English collector and historian of British sculpture. He is best known for his ''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851'', which "revolutionized the study of British sculpture, providing the foundation for all later studies on the subject".〔Tim Knox, (‘Gunnis, Rupert Forbes (1899–1965)’ ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 17 Oct 2010〕 ==Life== Born in Cadogan Square, London, Gunnis was educated at Eton College. In 1923 he entered the Colonial Service, serving as private secretary to the Governor of Uganda (1923–6) and then the Governor of Cyprus (1926–32). From 1932 to 1935 he worked as Inspector of Antiquities for the Cyprus Museum, publishing ''Historic Cyprus'' in 1936.〔Reissued as Rupert Gunnis, ''Historic Cyprus'' (Mitcham: Orage Press, 2013)〕 Returning to England in 1939, Gunnis inherited a large fortune with which he settled at Hungershall Lodge with his Turkish Cypriot life partner Namuk Kemal in Tunbridge Wells and pursued his antiquarian interests. Around 1942 he began compiling an index of monumental sculptors: this may have originally been intended for inclusion in Katherine Esdaile's projected 'Dictionary of British Sculptors', and after her death in 1950 he published his ''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851'' (completed in 1951 and published in 1953;〔〔 2nd ed. 1968). An expanded third edition was published in 2009 by Ingrid Roscoe and a team of scholars at the Henry Moore Institute.〔(The Gunnis project )〕 Rupert Gunnis died, aged 66, at Stratfield Saye, the Duke of Wellington's estate halfway between Reading and Basingstoke. He is buried in the Streatfeild Mausoleum in Chiddingstone churchyard, Kent (Streatfeild was his mother's maiden name), He left estate valued at £132,279. The author Evelyn Berckman dedicated her 1967 novel ''The Heir of Starvelings'' to Rupert Gunnis. The novel is an apparently true story, based an anecdotal tales told by Gunnis to the author. His contributions to the art world are cited in the foreword and he also plays a named part in the epilogue section, which is set in 1922. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rupert Gunnis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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