This page is a work in progress, and will be updated with additional information about Marion Harry Spielmann (M.H. Spielmann / M.H.S.).

Relationship to john william waterhouse:

Art critic; wrote reviews of Waterhouse's paintings including Mariamne and The Lady of Shalott.

Brief Biography:

SPIELMANN, Marion Harry (1858-1948)

"Marion H. Spielmann, born 1858, is an art critic and author of prominence. He has been the art critic and editor of several papers, and sectional editor for art of The Encyclopedia Brittannica. He has published a number of volumes dealing with art and artists, among them "Millais and His Works," 1898, "John Ruskin," 1900, "British Sculptors and Sculpture of the Day," 1901, "Charles Keene, Etcher," 1903, etc. His best known work is the "History of Punch." He was a close friend of Ruskin, in the closing years of the latter's life."
Source: The Jew in English Literature, As Author and As Subject, Rabbi Edward N. Calisch, The Bell Book and Stationery Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1909.

"He had already established his reputation as perhaps the brightest and most accomplished art critic in London. Youthful and frail in appearance, his pallid countenance was illuminated by the most remarkable eyes, black and lustrous, that I have ever seen. They literally danced with life, alertness and intelligence, riveting your attention with a mesmeric attraction."
Source: Recollections of a Court Painter, Henry Jones Thaddeus, John Lane, London & New York, 1912

Documented Relationship

- Waterhouse wrote Spielmann a letter dated March 29th, year unknown (between 1887-1900)