Charles Holme

Charles Holme (; 1848–1923) was an English journalist and art critic, founding editor of The Studio from 1893. He published a series of books promoting peasant art in the first decades of the 20th century. Life Holme was born on 7 October 1848 in Derby, the younger son of a silk manufacturer, George Holme, and his wife Ann, née Brentnall. Holme himself worked in the silk and wool trades, trading with Turkestan, India and China in the 1870s. He subsequently opened offices in Japan, visiting the country in 1889 with the painter Alfred East and Arthur Lasenby Liberty and his wife. He served as vice-president of the Japan Society, and was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1902. Holme was a member of the private bibliophile club, the Sette of Odd Volumes, and President in 1890. Holme was painted by Philip Alexius de László in 1908; the portrait was published in The Studio in 1911. He died on 14 March 1923 in Upton Grey, Hampshire. The Studio