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The Wallace Collection, London – from Rembrandt to Rubens


 

The Wallace Collection is the collected works of Sir Richard Wallace of the Marquesses of Hertford in England in his home, the Hertford House. Lady Wallace bequeathed the entire collection of about 5,500 pieces to the British Nation in 1897. Hertford House was opened to the public as a museum, with free admission, in 1900. 

 

The pieces include paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, timepieces, arms and armoury, porcelain, and furniture. The collection includes 18thcentury French art, 17thcentury and 19thcentury paintings, medieval and Renaissance works of art and an extensive collection of armour and weaponry.

 

Artists include: Francois Boucher, Canaletto, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, Frans Hals, Elizabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, Ernest Meissonier, Caspar Netscher, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Jean Raoux, Joshua Reynolds, Louis Francois Roubiliac, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Steen, Thomas Sully, Jan van der Heyden, Anthony van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Velazquez, Horace Vernet, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Domenichino Zampieri.




Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher (1703-1770), 1759
The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), 1767


Madame Perregaux by Elizabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842,). 1789
Mrs Robinson 'Perdita' by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), 1781


Joan of Arc in Prison by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), 1824

The Piazza San Marco, Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828), 1827
Polichinelle by Ernest Meissonier (1851-1891),  1860




General Bonaparte Reviewing Troops by Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835), c 1810 





Queen Victoria by Thomas Sully (1783-1872),  1838
The Dead Wolf by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), 1721


The Lace-Maker by Caspar Netscher (1639-1684),  1664
The Listening Housewife by Nicolas Maes (1632-1793),  1656
Venice: the Bacino di San Marco by Canaletto (1697-1768), 1744
The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals (1584-1666),  1624




MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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