Full Name: Long, Basil Somerset
Other Names:
- Basil S. Long
Gender: male
Date Born: 1881
Date Died: 1937
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): English (culture or style), painting (visual works), paintings (visual works), and watercolors (paintings)
Career(s): curators
Institution(s): Victoria and Albert Museum
Overview
Keeper of the Department of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and a leading authority on miniatures and early English water-colours. Under his guidence, the Future Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Carl Winter, trained.
Archives
- Long, Basil Somerset (1881-1937), Keeper at Victoria and Albert Museum, expert on miniatures, Victoria and Albert Archive of Art and Design. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F47342, AAD 11-1993.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen