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William "Willy" Mostyn-Owen (10 May 1929 – 2 May 2011) was a British art historian. He worked for some years with the art expert Bernard Berenson, and was his bibliographer. He was connected with the auctioneers Christie's for 30 years.
William Mostyn-Owen, who has died aged 81, was an art historian with a deep love of the Italian Renaissance, developed through six years of close contact with the art expert Bernard Berenson...
Not to be confused with William Mostyn-Owen, art historian. William Mostyn Owen ( c. 1742–11 March 1795), born William Mostyn, was a British land-owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1795.
William Mostyn-Owen - Berenson’s Assistant and later Director at Christie’s. William (often known as Willy) arrived at I Tatti in 1951, as he put it, ‘more by accident than design’. In subsequent travels around Europe William would send extensive notes to Berenson about what he was seeing in various museums.
William Mostyn-Owen was an art historian, educated at Eton and Magdalene College. He traveled widely in postwar Italy and France, visiting many private collections as well as the famous museums and galleries and during the 1950s he developed a deep love of the Italian Renaissance through six years of close contact with Bernard Berenson at Villa ...
14 de feb. de 2014 · William “Willy” Mostyn-Owen, a friend of Berenson in the 1950s who lived at the villa for two years, remembered meeting him, and recalled his habit of sizing up newcomers physically. “He’d look at you like you were a piece of sculpture,” said Mostyn-Owen during an interview.
William Mostyn Owen ( c. 1742–11 March 1795), born William Mostyn, was a British land-owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1795. Early life. William Mostyn was born c. 1742, the eldest son of William Mostyn of Bryngwyn, and his wife Grace Wynn, daughter of Robert Wynn of Plas Newydd.
