Michael MacLeod obituary

My friend Michael MacLeod, who has died aged 93, was an art historian with a strong interest in the work of the British artist Thomas Hennell. His book, Thomas Hennell: Countryman, Artist and Writer (1988), was the first to be published on his subject, and persuasively presented Hennell as an artist of rare achievement.Michael was born in Eltham, south-east London, to Frances (nee Wix) and Norman MacLeod, a captain in the First Gurkha Rifles who subsequently became first secretary at the British