Old Masters Drawings - A Handbook for Amateurs and Collectors. With seventy-two collotype plates.

Henry Scipio Reitlinger

Mining engineer, made a fortune as a director of the Naraguta Tin Mine and other mining companies in Nigeria. Captain in WWI. Later turned collector and art historian. Formed major collections of Old Master drawings, Oriental porcelain and Renaissance ceramics. After his death, the Henry Reitlinger Trust operated the Reitlinger Bequest Museum in Maidenhead between 1951 and 1987; it then closed and transferred items to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1991. Reitlinger's remaining personal collections were auctioned at Sotheby's after his death. Part 1 with drawings sold Sotheby's, 9.xii.1953, and was followed by six sales in 1954.
His publications include 'Old Master drawings, a handbook for amateurs and collectors' (1922) and 'A Selection of Drawings by old masters in the [V&A]museum collections with a catalogue and notes' (1921). Father of Gerald Reitlinger (qv).