Robert Witt
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British art historian and art collector
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Robert Witt 's Degrees
- PhD Art History University of Oxford
- Masters Art History The Courtauld Institute of Art
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Robert Clermont Witt was a British art historian, who, along with Samuel Courtauld and Lord Lee of Fareham, was a co-founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Witt was born in Camberwell, south London, in 1872, the son of German parents Gustavus Andreas Witt, a merchant born in Hamburg, and Friederike Helene Von Clermont, from Frankfurt. He was educated at Clifton College and read history at New College, Oxford. In 1896, he fought in the Second Matabele War, and worked alongside Cecil Rhodes as a war correspondent.
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