Charles Holroyd

Sir Charles Holroyd (1861–1917) was an English painter, etcher and museum director. Born in Leeds, he trained at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and spent several years in Italy, where he made many etchings of landscapes and buildings. In 1897 he became the first Keeper of the National Gallery of British Art, now Tate Britain, and in 1906 he was appointed Director of the National Gallery in London, a post he held for ten years. He was knighted in 1903. His study Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1903) included his translations of the early lives by Condivi and Francisco de Holanda.