Alys Eyre Macklin is an author about whom little is known; public information is limited, and her nationality, dates of birth and death, and personal history have not been reliably recorded. In the current catalogue she has only one work, Greuze. Judging from the title, the book concerns the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze and belongs to the genre of art history and painting criticism. Works of this kind usually follow the painter's life, creative development and representative pictures, set them against their period, and assess formal features and subject matter. Macklin's writing may therefore be understood as a focused study of an individual artist, combining close attention to works with narrative. Although the available material does not allow a full picture of her, this book remains a useful reference for Chinese readers interested in Greuze and his painting.
