Louis Alexander Fagan was an Anglo-Italian artist and writer. He worked in the Department of Prints and Drawings for the British Museum

British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...

 from 1869 to 1894.

Biography

Louis Alexander Fagan was born in 1854 in Naples, Italy. His grandfather was Robert Fagan

Robert Fagan

Robert Fagan was an Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist.-Career:The son of Cork immigrants, Fagan was born in London. As an archaeologist he traveled to Italy and was involved in the excavations near Laurentum, which resulted in the discovery of the Venus at the Capitoline. Fagan then...

He was the Keeper of Engravings at the British Museum from 1869 to 1894. In 1876 he wrote The Handbook to the Department He died in 1909.

Works

• British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Handbook to the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum (1876)
• The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K. C. B., late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc. (1881) in 2 vols. v.1 v.2
• The Masters of Raffaello (1882)
• Collector's marks (1883)
• The Art of Michel'Angelo Buonarroti … in the British Museum (1883)
• Raffaello Sanzio, his sonnet in the British museum: studied (1884)
• A catalogue raisonné of the engraved works of William Woollett (1885)
• 1836-1886. The Reform club: its founders and architect (1887)
• The Engraved Works of William Faithorne (1888)
• Mezzotint Engravings Relating to Ireland or to Irish Artists (1888)
• An easy walk through the British museum, or, How to see it in a few hours (1891)
• History of engraving in England, illustr. by 100 typical examples reprod. from rare prints in the British museum (1893)