James Bolivar Manson was an artist and worked at the Tate gallery for 25 years, including serving as its director from 1930 to 1938. In the Tate's own evaluation he was the "least successful" of their
James Bolivar Manson as Tate Director
Still Life: Tulips in a Blue Jug by J.B. Manson, c.1912
Lucien Pissarro Reading by J.B. Manson, est. 1913
Self-Portrait by J.B. Manson, c.1912
Lucien Pissarro was a French landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver, designer, and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he
James Bolivar Manson
…his work for the gallery was considered indispensable, he was exempt from military service; in 1917, he was promoted to Assistant Keeper. In 1919, Lucien Pissarro formed the Monarro Group with Manson as the London Secretary and Théo van Rysselberghe as the Paris secretary, aiming to show artists inspired by…
Lucien Pissarro, Pastoral scene, 1901
Lucien Pissarro's house in Stamford Brook, London, with a blue plaque bearing the following inscription: "Lucien Pissarro 1863–1944 Painter, Printer, Wood Engraver lived here".