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The Wallace Collection is a museum in London. The museum encompasses a range of fine and decorative arts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixelsFull resolution (3840 × 2160 pixel, file size: 4. ...
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Manchester Square in the 1790s. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with beauty or which appealed to taste (SOED 1991). ...
The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, or textile. ...
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An Old Master (or old master) is one of the great European painters who lived 1500 through 1800, or a painting by one of these painters. ...
Established in 1897 from the private collection of Sir Richard Wallace, his widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. Richard Wallace (1818 - 1890) was an English art collector. ...
Manchester Square in the 1790s. ...
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The museum's collection numbers nearly 5,500 objects and is best known for its quality and breadth of eighteenth-century French paintings, Sèvres porcelain and French furniture. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 429 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2024 × 2828 pixel, file size: 525 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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The Wallace Collection also displays many other treasures, such as two paintings by Titian, four Rembrandts, three Rubenses, four Van Dycks, twenty-two Canalettos, nineteen Bouchers, masterpieces by Hooch, nine Teniers, Frans Hals, nine Murillos, two Velázquezes and paintings by Domenichino, Cima, Daddi, Reni, Rosa, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Antoine Watteau, Nicholas Lancret, Jan Steen, Aelbert Cuyp and nine Guardis. The museum also holds a fine collection of princely arms and armour, featuring both European and Oriental objects, as well as displays of gold boxes, miniatures, sculpture and medieval and Renaissance works of art such as maiolica, glass, bronzes and Limoges enamels. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. ...
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The manufactory of hard-paste Limoges porcelain was established by Turgot in 1771 and placed under the patronage of the comte dArtois, brother of Louis XVI. Limoges had been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenwares since the 1730s, but the first identified French source of...
The works of art in the Collection comprise [1]:
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- Paintings,Watercolours and Drawings 775
- Furniture 528
- Ceramics 510
- European and Oriental Arms and Armour 2,370
- Sculpture 466
- Miniatures 334
- Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art 363
- Goldsmiths' Work 120
Departments The Wallace Collection is split into six curatorial departments, Pictures & Miniatures, Ceramics, Arms & Armour, Objet d'Art, Furniture and Scultpure.
Pictures & Miniatures The collection's old master paintings represent some of the finest works of art in the world, executed by most of the leading artists of their period. The displays of paintings span from the fourteenth to the mid-nineteenth century which, among museums in England, is surpassed only by those in the National Gallery. An Old Master (or old master) is one of the great European painters who lived 1500 through 1800, or a painting by one of these painters. ...
Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ...
The collection is particularly strong in Dutch and Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century and in eighteenth and nineteenth-century French paintings, though there are also outstanding works by English, Italian and Spanish artists. Strengths of the collection include examples by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Canaletto, Gainsborough, François Boucher, Fragonard, Murillo, Titian, Poussin and Velázquez. The Arnolfini portrait by Jan van Eyck. ...
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François Boucher The Toilet of Venus (1751) typifies the superficially pleasing elegance of Bouchers mature style. ...
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Et in Arcadia ego by Nicolas Poussin. ...
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The inventory of pictures, watercolours and drawings comprises all the major European schools.
Paintings, Drawing & Watercolours from the Wallace Collection - British, German, Spanish & Italian
- 151 paintings, 60 drawings*
- French Nineteenth Century
- 134 paintings, 57 watercolours¹
- French before 1815
- 144 paintings, 8 drawings and watercolours²
- Dutch
- 173 paintings, 2 drawings³
- Flemish
- 48 paintings*³
| - * The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures I
- ¹ The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures II
- ² The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures III
- ³ The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures IV
- *³ The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures IV
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Ceramics
 SEVRES - Sèvres Porcelain Cabinets There are fine examples of porcelain by the greatest of makers, including Meissen and one of the worlds greatest collections of Sèvres. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (2789 × 2084 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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Road to Sèvres, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1855-1865. ...
The Wallace Collection contains one of the richest and most distinguished collections of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain in the world. It includes 137 vases, 80 tea wares, 67 useful wares, 3 biscuit figures and 130 plaques (mostly on furniture), and was acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802 and c. 1875[2].
Furniture The Wallace Collection holds one of the most important collections of French furniture anywhere in the world.[3] Totalling more than five hundred pieces, the collection consists largely of eighteenth-century French furniture but also includes some significant pieces of nineteenth-century French furniture, as well as interesting Italian furniture and a few English and German pieces. The collection ranges from cabinet furniture, much of which is veneered with brass and turtleshell marquetry (commonly known as 'Boulle' marquetry) or with wood marquetry, to seat furniture, clocks and barometers, gilt-bronze items including mounted porcelain and hardstones, mantelpieces, mirrors, boxes and pedestals. One highlight of the collection is the major collection of furniture attributed to André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), perhaps the best-known cabinet-maker ever to have lived. Veneer, in woodworking, refers to thin slices of wood, usually thinner than 3 millimetres (1/8 inch). ...
The image on the cover of this box was made using the technique of marquetry. ...
Andre-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 - 28 February 1732), was a French cabinetmaker, who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of Marquetry. ...
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Andre-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 - 28 February 1732), was a French cabinetmaker, who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of Marquetry. ...
Building A few years ago the inner courtyard was given a glass roof and now contains a restaurant. Admission is free.
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Frans Hals (c. ...
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References - ^ http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0506/hc08/0832/0832.pdf
- ^ The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain - ISBN 0 900785 27 6
- ^ The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 139, No. 1136 (Nov., 1997), pp. 792-794
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- A Visitor's Experience: The Wallace Collection
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