Selected Writings
- Hokusai, 1899
- Constable, 1901 - available as a Kindle book
- Constable and His Influence on Landscape Painting, 1902
- Notes on the Science of Picture-Making, 1909
- Notes on the Post-Impressionist Painters, Grafton Galleries, 1910-11, 1910
- Notes on the Art of Rembrandt, 1911
- Leonardo da Vinci, 1919
- The Making of the National Gallery, 1824-1924. An historical sketch, 1924 (together with C.H. Collins Baker)
- A Grammar of the Arts, 1931
- Self and Partners (Mostly Self), 1936 (Autobiography)
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