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"DUGALD SUTHERLAND MACCOLL (1859-), British art critic, was born at Glasgow in 1859. He was educated at Glasgow and later at University College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. He studied art at the Westminster school of art and the Slade school. He became art critic of the Spectator and also of the Saturday Review, later becoming editor of the Architectural Review. In 1906 he was appointed keeper of the National Gallery of British Art, and in 1911 keeper of the Wallace Collection. In 1917 he became a trustee of the National Gallery of British Art. He was prominent in the foundation of the National Art Collections Fund and the Contemporary Art Society. His published works include Greek Vase Paintings (1894); Nineteenth Century Art (1902); The Administration of the Chantrey Bequest (1904); and Rhythm in English Verse, Prose and Speech (1914).