Anne Goodchild obituary

My friend Anne Goodchild, who has died aged 77, was an art historian who rose to become senior curator of the Graves art gallery in Sheffield, where she had started as a researcher back in the early 1970s. She retired in 2007, just before the introduction of legislation that would have enabled her to continue in the post she loved so much.I met Anne in 1976 when she organised a touring exhibition of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, part of a series of shows for Sheffield City art galleries devoted to 19th-