Books by Douglas Merritt

Katharine Eustace, a founder-member of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, has worked as a museum curator at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. She contributed the chapter on Post- Reformation monuments to the History of Canterbury Cathedral (OUP, 1995, reprint 2002). She is the Editor of the Sculpture Journal. Douglas Merritt's long association with Bristol began when he was a director of a Fleet Street design and public relations company that had Harveys of Bristol, Rolls-Royce and the S S Great Britain amongst its clients. He studied at the Royal College of Art and following his move to bristol in 1989 became an Honorary Visiting Professor of Graphic Design at the University of the West of England. Francis Greenacre BA FMA was Curator of Fine Art at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from 1969 to 1997. At Bristol he organised a wide range of outstanding exhibitions from the first major retrospective of the work of Sir Peter Blake in 1969 to the influential 'Artists of the Newlyn School' in 1979. Most often remembered are the exhibitions celebrating the artists of the Bristol School, which Francis Greenacre has done so much to promote. These have included the large show of Francis Danby's work, which went on to the Tate Gallery in 1989, and the exhibitions of Samuel Jackson's watercolours, likewise seen in London, and of W.J.Muller and of the 'Marine Artists of Bristol'. More recently he was involved in the acquisition by the National Trust of Tyntesfield, for which he wrote the official guidebook. His most recent publication, 'From Bristol to the Sea' was published in 2005. Born in 1941 in Suffolk, Francis took his degree in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He first worked at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. His long commitment to Bristol is reflected in his involvement in several of its institutions and charities, old and new. He was High Sheriff of Avon in 1993/4.