Anthony Bailey (author)

Anthony Bailey (5 January 1933 – 13 May 2020) was a British writer and art historian.

In 1955, he emigrated to New York City and became a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine for over 30 years. He wrote twenty-three books, including biographies of artists J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and two books on Rembrandt.

He lived on Mersea Island, near Colchester, Essex. He died on 13 May 2020 of COVID-19, aged 87. 

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