Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters Into England Since the French Revolution; Volume 2
Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters Into England Since the French Revolution; Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... Duke of Orleans to Thomas Moore Slade, Esq. who paid for them 350,000 francs, and who by great management succeeded in having them sent to this country at the moment that matters begun in France to wear the most serious aspect. This purchase was made for the late Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Morland, and Mr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... Duke of Orleans to Thomas Moore Slade, Esq. who paid for them 350,000 francs, and who by great management succeeded in having them sent to this country at the moment that matters begun in France to wear the most serious aspect. This purchase was made for the late Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Morland, and Mr. Hammersley, in conjunction with Mr. Slade. The principal part of this magnificent collection, consisting of the Italian schools, was consigned, on the part of Mons. Laborde de Mereville, to a house of eminence in the city of London, and it is believed that they were in the hands of that house when a treaty was entered into by the late Mr. Bryan, as authorised by and on the part of the late Duke of Bridgewater, the present Earl of Carlisle, and the Earl Gower, now Marquis of Stafford, for the purchase of that part of the collection, including also the French school, which was agreed on at the price of 43,000/. sterling. When this important purchase was concluded, which secured for England one of the richest collections, and at the same time one of the most valuable acquisitions which had presented itself in modern times, it was determined on by these three noblemen to select a certain proportion of the pictures for their own private collections, and to allow the remainder to be sold by private contract, under an exhibition to be made of the entire collection. This exhibition commenced on the 26th of December, 1798, in the rooms belonging to Mr. Bryan, in Pali-Mall, and at the Lyceum, in the Strand, neither of these places being individually sufficiently extensive to contain the collection. It continued for six months; at the end of which time all pictures sold were delivered to the purchasers. The pictures reserved for the original purchasers...
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