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{{short description|British art historian specializing in Indian art and architecture (1861-1934)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1861|09|16}}
| birth_place = [[Reading, Berkshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1934|12|31|1861|09|16}}
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| occupation =[[arts administrator]], [[art historian]], [[art critic]]
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'''Ernest Binfield Havell''' (16 September 1861 – 31 December 1934), who published under the name '''E.B. Havell,''' was an influential English [[arts administrator]], [[art historian]] and author of numerous books about [[Indian art]] and [[Indian architecture|architecture]]. He was a member of the [[Havell family]] of artists and art educators. He was the principal of the [[Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata|Government School of Art, Calcutta]] from 1896 to 1905, where, along with [[Abanindranath Tagore]], he developed a style of art and art education based on Indian rather than Western models, which led to the foundation of the [[Bengal school of art]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mitter|first=Partha |title=Indian art |url=https://archive.org/details/indianart0000mitt|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-284221-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/indianart0000mitt/page/177 177]}}</ref><ref name="ny">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20bose.html|title=Art Review: Indian Modernism via an Eclectic and Elusive Artist|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=19 August 2008|work=New York Times}}</ref>

==Early life==
Ernest was born at Jesse Terrace, [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] in the [[English people|English]] county of [[Berkshire]] in 1861,<ref name=fa/> the son of an artist Charles Richard Havell and his wife, Charlotte Amelia Lord. The family had several artists and publishers. He went to Reading School and learned art at the Royal College of Art and in Paris and Italy.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=2004-09-23|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37520|work=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|pages=ref:odnb/37520|editor-last=Matthew|editor-first=H. C. G.|place=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37520|access-date=2020-12-15|editor2-last=Harrison|editor2-first=B.}}</ref>

==Career==
In India, Havell initially served the [[Madras School|Madras School of Art]] as Superintendent for a decade from 1884. He arrived Calcutta on 5 July 1896 and joined as Superintendent of the [[Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata|Government School of Art, Calcutta]] next day. In between, he went to England for a year from April 1902 to March 1903. While in England, he published two valuable articles on Indian art in the October 1902 and January 1903 issues of a well known art journal of London, ''The Studio''. In January 1906 he left for England on long leave and finally in 1908, he was removed from the post.<ref>Bagal, Jogesh Chandra (1966). ''History of the Govt. College of Art and Craft'' in the ''Centenary: Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta'', Calcutta: Government College of Art & Craft, pp.21–34</ref>

Havell worked with [[Abanindranath Tagore]] to redefine Indian art education. He established the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which sought to adapt British art education in [[India]] so as to reject the previous emphasis placed on European traditions in favour of revivals of native Indian styles of art, in particular the [[Mughal painting|Mughal]] miniature tradition. He published several books on Indian art including ''Indian Sculpture and Painting'' (1908) and ''The Ideals of Indian Art'' (1911). He was involved in founding the [[India Society]] along with [[William Rothenstein]] in 1910 as a reaction to negative remarks made by Sir [[George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood|George Birdwood]] on Indian art.<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life==
He married Angelique Wilhelmina Jacobsen, daughter of a Danish navy officer in 1895 at [[St Giles, London]], Middlesex, England. The couple had a daughter, Sonia Joyce Havell in 1902.<ref name=fa>[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/c/h/John-K-Schlosser/GENE3-0018.html Descendants of Luke Havell]</ref> He died at the Acland Nursing Home in Oxford.<ref name=":0" />

==Works==
Havell wrote numerous books on Indian art and history, including:
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=The Taj and its designers|year=1903|publisher=s.n.}}
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the neighbourhood (1904)|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024120200#page/n11/mode/2up|year=1904|publisher=Longmans, Greens & Co., London}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=Benares, the sacred city: sketches of Hindu life and religion|url=https://archive.org/stream/benaressacredci01havegoog#page/n7/mode/1up|year=1905|publisher=Blackie and Sons Ltd., London}}
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=Monograph on stone-carving in Bengal|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924059519748#page/n3/mode/2up|year=1906|publisher=The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=Essays on Indian art, industry & education |url=https://archive.org/stream/essaysonindianar00haveiala#page/n1/mode/2up|year=1907|publisher=G. A. Natesan & Co., Madras}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=Indian sculpture and painting|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924016181798#page/n9/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=John Murray, London}}
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B. |title=The Basis for Artistic and Industrial Revival in India|url=https://archive.org/stream/basisforartisti00havegoog#page/n6/mode/1up|year=1912|publisher=The Theosophist Office, Madras}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E.B.|title=Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day|url=https://archive.org/stream/indianarchitectu00haveuoft#page/n9/mode/2up|year=1913|publisher=J. Murray, London }}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: a study of Indo-Aryan civilisation|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924011010109#page/n9/mode/2up|year=1915|publisher=John Murray, London}}
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=The History of Aryan Rule in India from the earliest times to the death of Akbar|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofaryanru00have#page/n9/mode/2up|year=1918|publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B. |title=The Ideals of Indian art |url=https://archive.org/stream/idealsofindianar00haveuoft#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1920|publisher=E. P. Dutton and Co., New York}}
* {{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=A Handbook of Indian Art|url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookofindian002882mbp#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1920|publisher=John Murray, London}}
*{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|title=Himalayas in Indian art|url=https://archive.org/details/TheHimalayasInIndianArt|year=1924|publisher=Pilgrims Publishing|isbn=81-7303-228-9}}

==Notes==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Havell,+E.+B.+(Ernest+Binfield) | name=Ernest Binfield Havell}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ernest Binfield Havell}}
* [http://architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-167039 Indian Architecture, Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First Muhannadan Invasion to the Present Day on Architexturez South Asia]

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