Background
Source: Wikipedia
Frederick Wedmore (9 July 1844 – 25 February 1921) was a British art critic and man of letters. Wedmore was born at Richmond Hill, Clifton, the eldest son of Thomas Wedmore of Druids Stoke, Stoke Bishop. His family were Quakers, and he was educated at a Quaker private school and then in Lausanne and Paris. After a short experience of journalism in Bristol he came to London in 1868, and began to write for The Spectator.
