Harold Woodbury Parsons
American art historian and dealer
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Harold Woodbury Parsons (July 13, 1882[1][2][3] – May 27, 1967) was an American art historian and dealer from Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was brought in as art advisor to the Nelson-Atkins Museum.[4] In 1960, he was instrumental in exposing certain supposed Etruscan masterpieces as fakes.[5][6][7][8]
Parsons died in Rome, aged 85, of myocardiosclerosis and heart failure. His ashes were interred at Campo Verano.[9]