Alexander Joseph Finberg (April 23, 1866 – March 15, 1939) was an art historian focused on theHistory of British Art who was a founder of theWalpole Society and an expert onJ. M. W. Turner.

Finberg was educated at City of London College, King's College London and the Lambeth School of Art.^[1] In 1905, Finberg was commissioned to catalogue and organise the paintings in theTurner Bequest. His work rediscovered numerous previously unknown Turner canvases which led toJoseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen to build a new wing devoted to Turner at theTate Britain. His resulting publication of theComplete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest in 1909 is still widely used by contemporary scholars and students. In 1911 he co-founded theWalpole Society.^[2]

• Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest (1909)
• The development of British landscape painting in water-colours (1918)^[3]
• The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum. With a new catalogue raisonn (1924)
• The Life of J M W Turner, RA (1939)

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