Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy ( 13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994 ), was a British art historian and museum director.

Traumatised by the murder of his brother James, Pope-Hennessy left the British Museum after only three years as director.

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy ( 1913 – 1994 ), who was a British art historian and the director of the British Museum from 1974 until 1976, was Hennessy's grandson.

However, Queen Victoria referred to Albert Victor's " dissipated life " in private letters to her eldest daughter, which were later published and, in the mid-20th century, the official biographers of Queen Mary and King George V, James Pope-Hennessy and Harold Nicolson respectively, promoted hostile assessments of Albert Victor's life, portraying him as lazy, ill-educated and physically feeble.

At a date unknown ( suggestions range from 1465 to 1480: Pope-Hennessy said abouit 1470 ) he finished in bronze a Putto ( winged boy ) with Dolphin, originally intended for a fountain in the Medici villa of Careggi and later brought to Florence for a fountain in the Palazzo della Signoria by the Grand Duke Cosimo de ' Medici.

Modern scholarship, led by Luigi Serra, John Pope-Hennessy, Evelina Borea and Richard Spear, who in 1982 published the first catalogue raisonné of all of Domenichino's paintings and preparatory drawings, have resurrected the artist from the Victorian graveyard and reestablished his place among the most important and influential painters of seventeenth-century Italy.

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It has been suggested that he was later apprenticed to Donatello, but there is no evidence of this and Pope-Hennessy considered that it is contradicted by the style of his early works.

Leopardi cast the bronze very successfully and the statue is universally admired, but Pope-Hennessy suggests that, if Verrocchio had been able to do this himself, he would have finished the head and other parts more smoothly and made it even better than it is.

In his book, Queen Mary ( London, 1959 ), the Queen's official biography, James Pope-Hennessy reports that the Queen's Aunt Augusta was not fond of the new science of photography, fearing it would intrude deeply into the private lives of Royal personages ; at pp. 101-105 he offers a masterly sketch of this formidable lady.

* John Pope-Hennessy ( 1988 ) " Bernard Berenson " in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 34.

Pope-Hennessy was born into an Irish Catholic family in Belgravia, London, to Major-General Richard Pope-Hennessy and Dame Una Pope-Hennessy ( née Birch ), who was the daughter of Arthur Birch, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceylon.

He was the eldest of two sons ; his younger brother James Pope-Hennessy was a writer of note.

At Oxford he was introduced by Logan Pearsall Smith ( a family friend ) to Kenneth Clark, who became a mentor to the young Pope-Hennessy.

Upon graduation Pope-Hennessy embarked on what he referred to as his Wanderjahre, travelling in Continental Europe and becoming acquainted with its great art collections, both public and private.

Pope-Hennessy retired at 75 and moved permanently to Florence, where he died five years later.

Morellian recognition of " handling " in undocumented fifteenth and sixteenth-century sculpture, in the hands of scholars like John Pope-Hennessy, have resulted in a broad corpus of securely attributed work.

The travel writer and biographer, James Pope-Hennessy, described the River Shannon at Banagher in September in his biography of Anthony Trollope: " The month of September in Banagher, and all along the Shannon banks, is visually a glorious one, with golden autumn mornings, the low sun making long shadows of the houses in the street.

James Pope-Hennessy came to Banagher in 1970 to write his biography of Anthony Trollope.

* Pope-Hennessy, John, Italian High Renaissance & Baroque Sculpture, London: Phaidon, 1996.

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As well as and in parallel with his role at SIL, Pike spent thirty years at the University of Michigan, during which time he served as chairman of its linguistics department, professor of linguistics, and director of its English Language Institute ( he did pioneering work in the field of English language learning and teaching )

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