Noël Oakeshott
Noël Rose Oakeshott, née Moon (1904–1976) was a British classical archaeologist.
Life
She was the daughter of the physician Robert Oswald Moon and his wife Ethel Waddington (died 1933), daughter of Major-General Thomas Waddington of Pangbourne, and sister of Penderel Moon the historian.[1][2][3] Her mother was a suffragist and artist.[4]
Noël was a pupil at the Farmhouse School, Mayortorne Manor near Wendover, run by Isabel Fry;[5] her mother had known Constance Masefield (née Crommelin), Fry's friend, during the 1890s.[4] There she learned Latin, and was taught Greek individually at her father's request. She acted there in a production of Iphigenia in Tauris, in Gilbert Murray's translation.[6] She entered the University of Oxford as a non-college student, lodging with David George Hogarth. Following the Literae humaniores course from 1922, she completed "Mods". She was then advised to transfer to the Diploma in Classical Archaeology.[5]
She was a student of John Beazley and applied his method of separation of individual painters to sub-Italian vase painting. It was an application of connoisseurship, and some attributions have been reconsidered since.[7]
Works and influence
Her essay Some Early South Italian Vase-Painters. With a brief indication of the later history of Italiote vase-painting from 1929 remains a basic work in the field. The pioneering work of Beazley and Moon was followed up by Arthur Dale Trendall.[8]
Family
She was the sister of Edward Penderel Moon, and married educational administrator and art historian Walter Oakeshott in 1928. Beazley named the so-called Oakeshott painter after the couple.
Notes
- ^ Dancy, John (1995). Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts. Michael Russell. p. 45.
- ^ Mason, Philip. "Moon, Sir (Edward) Penderel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39897. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Kelly's (1943). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. p. 1298.
- ^ a b Dillon, P. (2018). "A social and literary network in North Berkshire around the time of the First World War". Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets. 17: 103–113.
- ^ a b Dancy, John (1995). Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts. Michael Russell. pp. 33–34.
- ^ Brown, Beatrice Curtis (1960). Isabel Fry, 1869-1958: Portrait of a Great Teacher. A. Barker. pp. 101–108.
- ^ Carpenter, T. H.; Lynch, K. M.; Robinson, E. G. D. (2014). The Italic People of Ancient Apulia. Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-107-04186-8.
- ^ AO, Professor Maxwell R. Bennett (2019). The Search for Knowledge and Understanding. Sydney University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-74210-450-8.