Ian Eaves | |
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| Born | Ian Donald Dietrich Eaves |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Arms and armour researcher and consultant |
| Known for | Catalogues of armour in the Royal Collection and in the Fitzwilliam Museum |
Ian Donald Dietrich Eaves, MVO FSA, is a British researcher and consultant on arms and armour.[1] He served as the Keeper of Armour at the Royal Armouries for eighteen years, from 1978 to 1996.[2] Also starting in 1978, and continuing until 1983, he served as the editor of the Journal of the Arms & Armour Society; he was appointed the society's president in 1995,[1] and currently serves as a vice-president emeritus.[3] He has written and translated several articles for journals, including the society's.[4][5][6]
As of 2019, Eaves works as a consultant on arms and armour, and has been commissioned to create several catalogues of large collections.[7] In 2002 he published Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and in 2016 he coauthored the long-awaited Arms & Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, a 528-page work which Eaves had been working on for more than a decade. He has also coauthored a volume of an illustrated miniature series, The Art of the Gun: European Firearms Masterpieces from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. Eaves's work as a consultant has also included duties for auction houses, including Sotheby's and Thomas Del Mar Limited.[8]
Eaves has also collected armour himself; one of his former pieces is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9]
- ^ a b Yellowstone Press.
- ^ Oster 2003.
- ^ Arms & Armour Society.
- ^ Eaves 1993.
- ^ The Boston Globe 1983a.
- ^ The Boston Globe 1983b.
- ^ Oster 2003, pp. 551–552.
- ^ Thomas Del Mar.
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art.