Charles Holme

Charles Holme
Portrait of Charles Holme by Philip Alexius de László (1869–1937), published in The Studio in January 1928
Born	7 October 1848 Derby
Died	14 March 1923 Upton Grey, Hampshire
Nationality	British
Occupation	merchant; magazine editor
Known for	The Studio

Charles Holme (/hoʊm/; 1848–1923) was an English journalist and art critic, founding editor of The Studio from 1893. He published a series of books promoting peasant art in the first decades of the 20th century.

Charles Holme was born on 7 October 1848 in Derby, the younger son of a silk manufacturer, George Holme, and his wife Ann, née Brentnall. Holme himself worked in the silk and wool trades, trading with Turkestan, India and China in the 1870s. He subsequently opened offices in Japan, visiting the country in 1889 with the painter Alfred East and Arthur Lasenby Liberty and his wife. He served as vice-president of the Japan Society, and was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1902. Holme was painted by Philip Alexius de László in 1908; the portrait was published in The Studio in 1911.

He died on 14 March 1923 in Upton Grey, Hampshire.

Following his retirement from trade in 1892, Holme founded The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art, a magazine dedicated to fine arts and decorative arts, giving roughly equal weight to each. The first issue appeared in April 1893. The first serving editor was Joseph Gleeson White (Lewis Hind had acted as editor for four months before the launch of the magazine). In 1895 Holme took over as editor himself, although Gleeson White continued to contribute. Holme retired as editor in 1919 for reasons of health, and was succeeded by his son Charles Geoffrey Holme, who was already the editor of special numbers and year-books of the magazine.