Nutting, Wallace (1861–1941)

US Congregational minister, antiquarian, photographer, and author. The spokesperson for the colonial revival movement among collectors and home furnishers, his reputation remained somewhat compromised by his willingness to make reproductions. He wrote and provided photographs for a number of books including Furniture Treasury (3 volumes 1928–33), which remains a useful survey of American furniture.

Nutting was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts. Poor health led him to give up the ministry in 1904, and to support himself he began to sell his atmospheric photographs of rural New England. By 1912 he was collecting genuine period furniture to place in four old houses he was restoring; seeing a demand, he began in 1917 to manufacture reproductions of mainly American colonial furniture.