('E.H.') Hartley Ramsden
(1904-1993), Art historian, curator, critic and translatorSitter in 1 portrait
('E.H.') Hartley Ramsden; Margot Eates
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide print, September 1987
NPG x29874
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Zichu Zhao
04 July 2020, 18:51
If Hartley Ramsden were to be the same person E.H.Ramsden (I think that could be the case), he is the author of The Letters of Michelangelo published by Peter Owen Limited in 1963. The two-volume compilation of Michelangelo's letters contains a series of helpful Appendixes on Renaissance culture, including a Genealogical Table of the Buonarroti Family: 1228-1458, detailed information on Italian Renaissance Coinage, and The Italian Hours. In the Acknowledgements, E.H. Ramsden gave credit to Margot Eates for her contribution of "the five Appendixes with monetary matters, besides preparing the Genealogical Tables and the short note on the Italian Hours" (p xiii). And E.H.Ramsden mentioned Eates's "forthcoming publication" of Michelangelo's Ricordi, which I longed to yet failed to find.
Ellie Miles
30 November 2020, 14:35
Hartley Ramsden was given the name 'Eileen' at birth, but used Hartley throughout their life. 'E.H. Ramsden' and Hartley Ramsden are the same person. Ramsden and Eates worked and lived together throughout their lives.