Richard Fremantle

Richard Christian Wynne Fremantle (1 May 1936 – 13 November 2018) was an American art historian. The focus of most of his work is the early Florentine Renaissance, and in particular, the painter Masaccio. Biography Richard Fremantle was born on 1 May 1936 in London. One of three boys, he grew up in Washington D.C. and New York City, graduating from Portsmouth Priory, near Newport, Rhode Island, before attending Columbia College, Columbia University in New York, where he studied Art History. His father, Christopher Fremantle, was a painter, philosopher, and teacher of the ideas of Georges Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky. His mother was the writer Anne Fremantle. Richard belongs to the same family as Charles Fremantle (1800–1869), the British Navy officer who in 1829 claimed the whole western half of Australia (then called New Holland) for the British Crown, and for whom the city of Fremantle is named.