Novedades laborales, 2006

Born of a Spanish mother and English father in London in 1910, Enrique ta Harris studied Art History in the British capital and earned a doct orate in 1934 with a thesis on The Followers of Francisco de Goya, a p ainter to whom she later devoted a brief but thorough monograph. Linke d to the group of eminent scholars and humanists involved with the War burg Institute in London before the Second World War, she was curator of the teaching and research centres famous photographic archive betw een 1949 and 1952 and again from 1956 until 1970. Following her early writings on the influence of Caravaggio in Spain and iconographic prob lems in such works as El Grecos Purification of the Temple, she wrote essential studies on the history of the taste for Spanish art in Grea t Britain. But the main focus of her extensive research work was alway s Velázquez, on whose life and work she made many critical and documen tary contributions culminating in her indispensable monograph which wa s first published in