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- and early 20th-century artists in need of intelligent re-evaluation. JW Waterhouse, William Strang and Gerald Brockhurst followed, among many other exhibitions and scholarly displays.
