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William Anderson was a professor of anatomy at the Imperial Naval Medical College in Tokyo, and became curator of Japanese art at the [[British Museum]] in [[1881]].

William Anderson was a professor of anatomy at the Imperial Naval Medical College in Tokyo, and became curator of Japanese art at the [[British Museum]] in [[1881]].

A paper he delivered at the Asiatic Society of Japan in [[1879]] is said to have inspired [[Ernest Fenollosa]] in his attitudes about Japanese art.

A paper he delivered at the Asiatic Society of Japan in [[1879]] is said to have inspired [[Ernest Fenollosa]] in his attitudes about Japanese art. Anderson is also known to have commissioned some eighty paintings from [[Kawanabe Kyosai|Kawanabe Kyôsai]], and may have provided Kyôsai with Western pigments.

In 1881, the British Museum obtained Anderson's collection of Japanese art, and named him curator.

In 1881, the British Museum obtained Anderson's collection of Japanese art, and named him curator.

==References==

==References==

*Gallery label, "Minamoto Yoshitsune in training," British Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20267087214/in/photostream/]

*Gallery label, "Minamoto Yoshitsune in training," British Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20267087214/in/photostream/]

[[Category:Foreigners]]

[[Category:Foreigners]]

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]

[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]