WLoÿs Henri Delteil a.k.a. Leo Delteil (1869–1927), was a French engraver and lithographer, publisher, dealer, art historian and compiler of 19th-century graphics catalogues.
WTaco Dibbits is an art historian from Amsterdam, Netherlands and director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
WEivind Stenersen Engelstad was a Norwegian archaeologist and art historian.
WYelena Yurievna Gagarina is a Soviet and Russian art historian. She is the General Director of the State historical and cultural Museum-reserve Moscow Kremlin Museums, and the eldest daughter of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
WMaría Concepción García Gainza is a Spanish art historian, educator and writer. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Navarre. She is also a corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Academy de Santa Isabel de Hungary in Seville.
WGustav Glück was an Austrian art historian, the author of several major books on Dutch art.
WJan Hulsker was a Dutch art historian especially noted for his work on Vincent van Gogh. He studied Dutch literature in Leiden and was promoted with a thesis on the author Aart van der Leeuw. In 1953, he was appointed to the Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk werk, in charge of the art department. In 1959, he became general director in charge of culture at large. The establishment of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam were among his major tasks.
WCarl Justi was a German art historian, who practised a biographical approach to art history. Professor of art history at the University of Bonn, he wrote three major critical biographies: of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, of Diego Velázquez and of Michelangelo.
WMax Lehrs was a German art historian and long-time director of the Dresden Kupferstichskabinett, 1896–1904, and 1908–24, with the intervening as director in Berlin. He is especially noted for his work on 15th-century German and Dutch engravers, and the numbers from his catalogues are still the most commonly used in modern references for many artists. Lehrs went blind while still writing his works, which were completed with the help of his daughter and his memory, leading to some lapses in late works.
WRodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade (1898–1969) was a Brazilian art critic and historian. He served as director of preservation of artistic patrimony of Brazil at the Ministry of Education. He is credited, among many similar discoveries, with reviving interest in Antônio Francisco Lisboa. He is the author of Monumentos Históricos y Arqueológicos de Brasil.
WBirgit Rausing is a Swedish art historian, philanthropist, a former billionaire heiress and the widow of Gad Rausing (1922–2000).
WEduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the Generation of '80, he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of painting in his country.
WGerhard Schmidt was professor of the history of art at the University of Vienna. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge 1981-82.
WSha Menghai, born Shi Wenruo (沙文若), was a great master of calligraphy in China. He also was a master of Chinese seal carving (中国篆刻艺术), a theoretician of traditional Chinese art, and a master of Shanghai School art. Sha Wenhan is his brother.
WMarjorie Jean Tipping MBE (1917–2009) was an Australian historian and patron of community services.