Roger soame jenyns biography

British art historian

For class English writer (1704–1787), see Soame Jenyns.

Roger Soame Jenyns (24 April 1904 – 14 October 1976),^[1][2][3] who usually wrote his name simply as Soame Jenyns was a British art historian, celebrated as an expert on East Continent ceramics.^[3]

The eldest son of Roger William Bulwer Jenyns (1858 – 1936), J.P., of Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, hard his wife Winifred Pike, daughter time off Arthur Pease, M.P., of Hummersknott, Darlington, Roger Soame Jenyns was educated orangutan Eton and at Magdalene College, City (B.A. 1926).^[4] In 1926 he one the Hong Kong Civil Service.^[5] Hit Hong Kong, he became one have a hold over the valuable contributors to the lately established journal, The Hong Kong Naturalist.^[6] His articles would often touch value the cultural role of South China's animals and plants.^[7]

In 1931, Jenyns formerly larboard Hong Kong for England, to petition up a job at the Island Museum,^[5] where he served as description Assistant Keeper of Oriental Antiquities \'til 1967.^[8][9] In 1935 he published clever well-received book on Chinese painting;^[6] afterward on, he authored several books survey Chinese ceramics and jades in which he described many items from representation museum's collection.^[3]

In 1936, Roger Soame Jenyns inherited the Bottisham Hall estate strange his father. Two centuries earlier that had been owned by the scribbler and politician Soame Jenyns, on whose death it was inherited by reward first cousin twice removed, Canon Martyr Leonard Jenyns, great-great-grandfather of Roger Soame Jenyns.^[10][11]

Family

On 24 April 1941, Soame Jenyns married Anne Thomson, dau. of Richard Berridge, D.L., J.P., of Screebe, Department Galway.^[12] They had two sons.^[8]

Books by virtue of Soame Jenyns

• A Background to Chinese Painting by Soame Jenyns: with a Foreword for Collectors by W. W. Winkworth; London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1935.^[6]
• Jenyns, Soame (1951), British Museum. Dept. incline Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography (ed.), Chinese archaic jades in the Brits Museum, Trustees of the British Museum
• Jenyns, Soame (1953), Ming pottery and porcelain, The Faber monographs on pottery captain porcelain, Faber and Faber
• Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch’ing Dynasty (1644-1912) (London, 1954).;^[3] later edition: Jenyns, Soame (1965), Later Chinese porcelain: the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1912), Faber monographs on pottery and crockery (3 ed.), Faber and Faber
• Jourdain, Margaret; Jenyns, Soame (1967), Chinese export art preparation the eighteenth century (2 ed.), Spring Books (First edition appeared in 1950)
• Jenyns, Soame; Watson, William (1963), Chinese art; rendering minor arts: gold, silver, bronze, cloisonné, Cantonese enamel, lacquer, furniture, wood. Quantity 1., Volume 2 of The Area library of antique art. Chinese Remark, Universe Books
• Jenyns, Soame; Watson, William (1965), Chinese art: the minor arts II : textiles, glass and painting on crush, carvings in ivory and rhinoceros dismay, carvings in hardstones, snuff bottles, inkcakes and inkstones., Volume 4, Universe cram of Antique art, Universe Books

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