William Henry James Weale

William Henry James Weale (8 March 1832 – 26 April 1917) was an art historian. Quotes During the first half of the present century those who visited and examined collections of Early Netherlandish Paintings were like explorers voyaging on a wild and unknown ocean without a chart; some of them making careful observations, and jotting down on their maps any land of the existence and extent of which they had acquired certain proof, and noting its characteristic features ; others, however, in their eagerness to make discoveries quickly, and to acquire renown, mistaking sandbanks and rocks seen through the mists for hitherto undiscovered countries, giving them names, dilating in elegant language on their beauties, and for a time obtaining the reputation of having added to the world's knowledge. Hans Memlinc (1901) External links Category:1832 births Category:1917 deaths Category:Art historians Category:King's College London alumni Category:People from London