HOLMES, SIR CHARLES JOHN English painter and writer on art, was born at Preston on Nov. 11, 1868. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked in the publish ing firm of Rivington, Ballantyne and Arnold from 1889-91. In 1903 he became editor of the Burlington Magazine; he was Slade professor in Oxford (1904-10) ; director of the National Portrait Gallery ; director of the National Gallery . He was knighted in 1921. From his early youth he devoted his spare time to the study of art. Encouraged by Charles Ricketts, he etched some 85 plates from landscape draw ings during the period from 1892-97. In 1900 he began to ex hibit at the New English Art club, of which he was elected a member in 1904. In 1924 he became an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour. The subjects of his paint ings were mainly taken in the north country, and his style was formed by his study of Japanese art and the old masters. His theories on art are explained in Notes on the Science of Picture Making (1909) . Other publications by him are Hokusai (1900) ; Hiroshige (1902) ; Constable (1902) ; Notes on the Art of Rem brandt (191I) ; The Tarn and the Lake (1913) ; Constable, Gainsborough and Lucas (192 2) ; The National Gallery, Italian Schools (1923) ; The Netherlands, Germany and Spain (1925) ; The Making of the National Gallery . The fol lowing public galleries have works by him :—The Tate gallery, the British Museum, Manchester, Johannesburg, the Ashmolean at Oxford and Melbourne.