J. Ernest Phythian

John Ernest Phythian (2 August 1858 – 31 March 1935) was an English solicitor, journalist, art critic, university extension lecturer, and lay preacher.

Biography

J. Ernest Phythian was born in Manchester, the youngest and eighth child of Joseph Phythian, a smallware manufacturer, and his wife, Alice (née Townsend). In 1887, he married Ada Prichard Crompton. The couple had one daughter, Labour politician Mabel Tylecote.

Works

• The Story of Art in the British Isles (1901)
• The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905)
• Trees in Nature, Myth and Art (1907)
• George Frederick Watts (1907)
• Burne-Jones (1908)
• Fifty Years of Modern Painting (1908)
• Turner (1911)
• Millais (1911)
• Jozef Israëls (1912)
• French Gothic Architecture (1916)

External links

• Works by J. Ernest Phythian at Hathi Trust