"Name the German born, British art historian, who wrote a series of books entitled, ""The Buildings of England"", between 1951 and 1974?"
Pevsner Architectural Guides Pevsner Architectural Guides The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published between 1951 and 1974. The series was then extended to Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the late 1970s. The Irish guides are incomplete as of autumn 2016. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors. The final Scottish volume, "Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire", was published in autumn 2016. This completed the series'
Jack Hillier (art historian) Jack Hillier (art historian) Jack Ronald Hillier (29 August 1912 – 5 January 1995) was a British scholar of Japanese art. Hillier was born on 29 August 1912 in Fulham, England. He left school at 15 and worked for an insurance company until 1967. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. He became interested in Japanese ukiyo-e art in the 1940s, when it was at a low ebb in terms of interest from the West. He collected Japanese prints, books, and paintings. He taught himself to draw and make prints, and in 1951 had "Old Surrey