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Book Review
‘The Most Fortunate Man of his Day’. Sir Richard Wallace: Connoisseur, Collector and Philanthropist
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 289-299
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Reviewer:
Malgouyres, Philippe (Malgouyres, Philippe)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Collectors / Collecting / Collections / Philanthropists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
‘The Most Fortunate Man of his Day’. Sir Richard Wallace: Connoisseur, Collector and Philanthropist By Suzanne Higgott. 428 pp. incl. 479 col. + 12 b. & w. ills. (Wallace Collection, London, 2018), £45. ISBN 978–0–9954861–3–3. | :
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A dish from the Cantagalli workshop in the British Museum
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 816-823
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Author:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
art literature:
Robinson, J.C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913 / Franks, Augustus Wollaston / Fortnum, Charles Drury
artists:
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel / Beaumont, Adalbert de / Delacroix, Eugène / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton / De Morgan, William / Vollon, Antoine
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890 / Stibbert, Frederick / Schwiter, Baron Louis-Auguste / Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emilien
dates:
1850-1899 / 2010-2019
media:
Maiolica / Ceramics / Drawings / Watercolours / Interiors
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France / Musée national de céramique, Sévres, France / Bethnal Green Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Italy / Florence / Turkey / Iznik
subjects:
Damascus Pottery (Iznik) / Cantagalli manufactory, Florence, Italy / Workshops (Organisations) / Plates / Dishes / Colour / Ornament / Pigments / Glazes / Fatimid pottery syles / Valencian / Mamluk / Islamic / Ottoman / Orientalism / Pottery / Decorative arts / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Gifts / Bequests / Art museums / Catalogues / Provenance / Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Iznik-style dish, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1890–95. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 41 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of the dish illustrated in Fig.1, showing the cockerel mark for the Cantagalli workshop.
Attributed works:
3. Iznik-style dish with scalloped edge and floral sprays, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1899. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 39 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Iznik-style vase, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. 1883. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 57 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. Canvas, 264 by 192 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. The sixteenth-century room at Hertford House, London, looking north, by J.J.Thomson. c.1890. Photograph. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Iznik rimless dish with flower sprays, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1550. Fritware painted in underglaze blues, green and mauve, diameter 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Iznik dish with peahen amid prunus branches, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1580–90. Fritware painted in underglaze blue, green and red, diameter 47.4 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Western art unattributed:
7. The comte de Nieuwerkerke’s collections in his private apartments in the Louvre, unknown photographer. c.1865. Stereoscopic glass negative. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Exhibition Review
Sir Richard Wallace: The Collector. The Wallace Collection, London
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 858-860
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Dircksz., Adam / Prieur, Barthélemy / Xanto Avelli, Francesco / Desgoffe, Blaise Alexandre, 1830-1901 / Tissot, James / Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest
artists:
Pomarano, Francesco / Wilborn, Nicolaus
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890 / Seymour-Conway, Richard, Fourth Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870 / Rothschild, Ferdinand
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Bronzes / Ivories / Enamels / Maiolica / Glassware / Metalwork / Medals / Armour / Weapons / Silverwork / Jewellery / Gold / Porcelain
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Collecting / Collections, Public / Gifts / Bequests / French painting / Carvings / Venetian glass / Boxwood / Goblets / Christian iconography / Birds / Animals
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Objects of ancient art in the collection of Sir Richard Wallace, by Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe. Canvas, 99.5 by 150 cm. (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; exh. the Wallace Collection, London).
Attributed works:
14. An ostrich, by Elias Zorer. Augsburg, c.1600. Silver, with gilding, height 42 cm. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
15. Trophy head. Asante Kingdom, eighteenth or nineteenth century. Gold, height 20 cm. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Short Notice
Vollon's 'Curiosités', the comte de Nieuwerkerke and the Wallace Collection
11/1980 | 932 | 122
Pages: 767-770
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Author:
Savill, Rosalind (Savill, Rosalind)
Subjects
artists:
Vollon, Antoine
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
dates:
1850-1899
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emilien
places:
France / England / London
subjects:
French painting / Collections, Private / Patronage
subjects:
Art objects
works:
Curiosités (Musée Municipal, Luneville)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
85. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. 264 by 192 cm. (Musée Municipal, Luneville).
Attributed works:
86. Collection de S. E. le comte de Nieuwerkerke, by Tetar van Elven. 1866. (Musée du Château, Compiègne).
Attributed works:
87. Objects d'art ancien de la collection de Sir Richard Wallace à Londres, by Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe. 1885. 150 by 100 cm. (Private collection, France).
Attributed works:
88. Sir Richard Wallace's Sixteenth-Century Room at Hertford House. Created in 1875. Photograph Taken by J. J. Thomson in the 1890s. (Wallace Collection).
Article
The Hertford-Wallace Collection of Tapestry
04/1956 | 637 | 98
Pages: 116-118
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Author:
Cecil, R. A. (Robert Arthur) (Cecil, R. A. (Robert Arthur); C., R. A.; Cecil, Robert Arthur)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Seymour-Conway, Richard, Fourth Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
places:
France / England / London
subjects:
Textiles / Tapestries / Collections, Private
subjects:
Gobelins tapestries / Beauvais tapestries
subjects:
Exhibitions / Provenance / Documents
Article
The Remainder of the Hertford and Wallace Collections
06/1950 | 567 | 92
Pages: 168-172
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Author:
Cecil, R. A. (Robert Arthur) (Cecil, R. A. (Robert Arthur); C., R. A.; Cecil, Robert Arthur)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
collectors and dealers:
Seymour-Conway, Richard, Fourth Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870
collectors and dealers:
Murray Scott, John, Sir, 1847-1912
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Art museums / Collections / Collections, Private
subjects:
Bequests / Documents / Inventories
subjects:
French painting
subjects:
Collecting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Philippe, duc d'Orléans ('Monsieur'), Attributed to Antoine Coysevox. Marble, 90 by 74 cm. (Seligmann et Cie, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Vertumne et Pomone, by Antoine Watteau. Canvas, 41.9 by 29.2 cm. (M. Georges Wildenstein, Paris.)
Attributed works:
21. The duc de Chartres Feeding the Swans, by Louis Tocqué. Canvas, 146 by 114 cm. (M. Germain Seligman, New York.)
Attributed works:
22. Une Baigneuse, by J. A. Houdon. Marble, Height 120 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.)
Attributed works:
23. King Louis XIV, Attributed to A. Coysevox. Marble, Height 95 cm. (Messrs Seligmann et Cie, Paris.)
Attributed works:
24. Count Cagliostro, by J. A. Houdon. Signed and Dated 1786 Marble, Height 79.5 cm. (M. Germain Seligman, New York.)
Attributed works:
25. Mlle Sophie Arnould, by J. A. Houdon. Marble. (Louvre, Paris.)
Western art unattributed:
19. View of the Gallery at No. 2 Rue Laffitte, Paris, in the Time of Sir John Murray Scott.
Article
The 'Tilsit' Table and the 'Stanislas' Bureau
06/1950 | 567 | 92
Pages: 164-167
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Author:
Watson, F. J. B. (Watson, F. J. B.; Watson, Francis John Bagott; W., F. J. B.; Watson, Mr.; Watson, F.J.B.; Watson, Francis)
Subjects
artists:
Dubois, Jacques
artists:
Riesener, Jean-Henri
collectors and dealers:
Seymour-Conway, Richard, Fourth Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
places:
France / Russia / England
subjects:
Art museums / Collections / Furniture / Tables (support furniture) / Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Detail from Plate v of Rutter's An Illustrated History and Description of Fonthill Abbey (1823), Showing the 'Stanislas' Bureau in the Great Drawing Room.
Attributed works:
18. Right-Hand Side of the 'Stanislas' Bureau by J. H. Riesener. (Wallace Collection.)
Article
The Horn of Saint Hubert
06/1950 | 567 | 92
Pages: 161-165
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Author:
Mann, James G. (Mann, James G.; Mann, James)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
dates:
1450-1499
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Charles, le Téméraire, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
places:
France / England
subjects:
House of Burgundy / Patronage
subjects:
Drinking horns / Provenance / Art objects
subjects:
Hagiographies / Hubert, Saint
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
13, 14. The Horn of St Hubert. The Gift of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy to Chauvirey-le-Châtcl. Decorated with Gesso, Painted and Gilt, and with Silver Rings of Champlevé Enamel of the Late Fifteenth Century. Length, 49.5 cm; Diameter, 5.75 cm. (Wallace Collection.)
Western art unattributed:
15. Imitation Hunting Horn Used in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries as a Reliquary for The Horn of St Hubert. Iron, Painted Black. Length, 66.7 cm. (Wallace Collection.)
Western art unattributed:
16. Exterior of the Chapel of St Hubert, Chauvirey-le-Châtel (Haute-Saône).
Book Review
"Old Q's" Daughter. A Biography
09/1937 | 414 | 71
Pages: 150
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Reviewer:
Brackett, Oliver (Brackett, Oliver; B., O.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
collectors and dealers:
Seymour-Conway, Richard, Fourth Marquess of Hertford, 1800-1870
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
subjects:
Art museums / Collections / Biographies
subjects:
Seymour-Conway, Maria Emily, Marchioness of Hertford, 1771-1856
Reviewed Items
subjects:
"Old Q's" Daughter. A Biography | author: Falk, Bernard
Short Notice
Notes
08/1914 | 137 | 25
Pages: 314-318
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Author:
Adey, More (M. A.) (Adey, More (M. A.); A., M.)
Author:
Bax, C. E. O. (C. E. O. B) (Bax, C. E. O. (C. E. O. B); Bax, Clifford)
Author:
L., H. W. (L., H. W.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890
museums and institutions:
Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
subjects:
Art education / Management
subjects:
Impressionism / Exhibitions
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