Nigel Glendinning

Oliver Nigel Valentine Glendinning (16 October 1929 – 23 February 2013), known as Nigel Glendinning, was a scholar and authority on Goya and 18th Century Spanish literature. He wrote a history of Spanish literature in the age of the Enlightenment and his analytical approach to Goya combined the artist's work with an understanding of its historical context.

Life Oliver Nigel Valentine Glendinning was born in East Sheen on 16 October 1929 into a musical and artistic family. He is survived by four sons: Simon Glendinning, Paul Glendinning, the photographer Hugo Glendinning and the sport journalist Matthew Glendinning.

Selected bibliography Vida y obra de Cadalso (Joseph de Cadalso, 1741-1782, His Life And His Works, Versión castellana de Ángela Figuera), published 1962 The Eighteenth Century, Literary History of Spain, London, 1972 The Interpretation Of Goya's Black Paintings, London, 1975 Spanish Painting In The Golden Age, published by the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council, London, 1977 Nineteenth-Century British Envoys In Spain And The Taste For Spanish Art In England, Documents for Collecting published in the Burlington Magazine, London, 1989 Goya And His Critics, published by Ann Arbor, USA, 1995