Wallace Collection
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[[Image:Wallace Collection across Manchester Square.jpg|thumb|300px|The Wallace Collection across [[Manchester Square]] gardens]]
The '''Wallace Collection''' is a museum in [[London]], with a world-famous range of [[Fine art|fine]] and [[decorative art]]s 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.
It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by [[Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford]] (1800-1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son [[Sir Richard Wallace]] (1818-1890), whose 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. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free. It is a [[Non-Departmental Public Body]].
==Collections==
[[Image:Diego Velázquez 057.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]] - Lady with a Fan]]
The museum's collection numbers nearly 5,500 objects and is best known for its quality and breadth of eighteenth-century French paintings, [[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|Sèvres]] porcelain and French furniture.
The Wallace Collection also displays many other treasures, such as two paintings by [[Titian]], four [[Rembrandt]]s, three [[Rubens]]es, four [[Van Dyck]]s, twenty-two [[Canaletto]]s, nineteen [[François Boucher|Boucher]]s, masterpieces by Hooch, nine [[David Teniers the younger|Teniers]], [[Frans Hals]], nine [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo|Murillo]]s, two [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]]es and paintings by [[Domenico Zampieri|Domenichino]], [[Cima da Conegliano|Cima]], [[Bernardo Daddi|Daddi]], [[Guido Reni|Reni]], [[Salvator Rosa|Rosa]], [[Thomas Gainsborough]], [[Joshua Reynolds]], [[Antoine Watteau]], [[Nicholas Lancret]], [[Jan Steen]], [[Aelbert Cuyp]] and nine [[Francesco Guardi|Guardis]]. The museum also holds a fine collection of arms and armour, featuring both European and Oriental objects, as well as displays of gold boxes, miniatures, sculpture and [[Middle Ages|medieval]] and [[Renaissance]] works of art such as [[maiolica]], glass, bronzes and [[Limoges porcelain|Limoges enamels]].
The works of art in the Collection comprise <ref>[http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0506/hc08/0832/0832.pdf The Wallace Collection Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05 HC 832<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>:
:*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 paintings include important works from all periods between the fourteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
The collection is particularly strong in [[Dutch Golden Age painting|Dutch]] and [[Flemish painting|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, [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard|Fragonard]], Murillo, Titian, [[Poussin]] and Velázquez.
The inventory of pictures, watercolours and drawings comprises all the major European schools.
====Paintings, drawing & watercolours from the Wallace Collection====
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# 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
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:<nowiki>*</nowiki> The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures I
:<nowiki>¹</nowiki> The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures II
:<nowiki>²</nowiki> The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures III
:<nowiki>³</nowiki> The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures IV
:<nowiki>*³</nowiki> The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures IV
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''Dutch School
:*[[Gerard ter Borch|Borch, Gerard ter]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Aelbert Cuyp|Cuyp, Aelbert]] - 6 paintings;
:*[[Gerrit Dou|Dou, Gerrit]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Frans Hals|Hals, Frans]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Meyndert Hobbema|Hobbema, Meyndert]] - 5 paintings;
:*[[Pieter de Hooch|Hooch, Pieter de]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Gabriel Metsu|Metsu, Gabriel]] - 5 paintings;
:*[[Adriaen van Ostade|Ostade, Adriaen van]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Rembrandt|Rembrandt van Rijn]] - 6 paintings;
:*[[Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael|Ruisdael, Jacob van]] - 5 painting;
:*[[Frans Snyders|Snyders, Frans]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Jan Steen|Steen, Jan]] - 5 paintings;
:*[[Adriaen van de Velde|Velde, Adriaen van de]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Willem van de Velde the Younger|Velde, Willem van de...the Younger]] - 8 paintings;
:*[[Jan Weenix|Weenix, Jan]] - 13 painting;
:*[[Philip Wouwerman|Wouwerman, Philip]] - 6 paintings;
''English School''
:*[[Thomas Gainsborough|Gainsborough, Thomas]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[John Hoppner|Hoppner, John]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Edwin Henry Landseer|Landseer, Sir Edwin]] - 4 paintings;
:*[[Thomas Lawrence (painter)|Lawrence, Thomas]] - 4 paintings;
:*[[Joshua Reynolds|Reynolds, Joshua]] - 12 paintings;
:*[[Joseph Mallord William Turner|J.M.W. Turner]] - 4 paintings;
''Flemish School''
:*[[Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Jan Mabuse|Gossaert, Jan]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Hans Memling|Memling, Hans]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens, Peter Paul]] - 9 paintings;
:*[[David Teniers the Younger|Teniers, David]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Anthony van Dyck|Van Dyck, Anthony]] - 4 paintings ;
''French School''
:*[[François Boucher|Boucher, François]] - 19 paintings;
:*[[Philippe de Champaigne|Champaigne, Philippe de]] - 4 paintings;
:*[[François Clouet|Clouet, François]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot|Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix, Eugène]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Hippolyte Delaroche|Delaroche, Hippolyte]] - 12 paintings;
:*[[Gaspard Dughet|Dughet, Gaspard]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Jean-Honoré Fragonard|Fragonard, Jean-Honoré]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Claude Lorrain|Gellée, Claude]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Théodore Géricault|Géricault, Théodore]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Jean-Baptiste Greuze|Greuze, Jean-Baptiste]] - 19 paintings;
:*[[Nicolas Poussin|Poussin, Nicolas]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Théodore Rousseau|Rousseau, Théodore]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Jean-François de Troy|Troy, Jean-François de]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Claude-Joseph Vernet|Vernet, Claude-Joseph]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Horace Vernet|Vernet, Horace]] - 24 paintings;
:*[[Jean-Antoine Watteau|Watteau, Jean-Antoine]] - 9 paintings;
''Italian School''
:*[[Canaletto]], (Giovanni Antonio Canal) - 19 paintings;
:*[[Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano|Cima, da Conegliano]] - 2 paintings;
:*[[Carlo Crivelli|Crivelli, Carlo]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Francesco Guardi|Guardi, Francesco]] - 9 paintings;
:*[[Salvator Rosa|Rosa, Salvator]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Andrea del Sarto|Sarto, Andrea del]] - 1 painting;
:*[[Titian]], (Tiziano Vecelli) - 1 painting;
:*[[Domenico Zampieri| (Domenichino)]] - 1 painting;
''Spanish School''
:*[[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo|Murillo, Bartolomé-Esteban]] - 8 paintings;
:*[[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez, Diego]] - 2 paintings;
===Ceramics===
[[Image:IMG 2418 - EDITED.jpg|thumb|180px|right|[[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|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]].
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<ref>The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain - ISBN 0 900785 27 6</ref>.
===Furniture===
The Wallace Collection holds one of the most important collections of French furniture anywhere in the world.<ref>The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 139, No. 1136 (Nov., 1997), pp. 792-794</ref> 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 [[Wood veneer|veneered]] with brass and turtleshell [[marquetry]] (commonly known as [[André Charles Boulle|'Boulle']] marquetry) or with wood marquetry, to seat furniture, clocks and barometers, [[Ormolu|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|André-Charles Boulle]] (1642-1732), perhaps the best-known cabinet-maker ever to have lived.
==Building==
A few years ago the inner courtyard was given a glass roof and now contains a restaurant.
==Gallery==
<Gallery>
Image:IMG 2413.jpg| The Front State Room
Image:IMG 2415 - EDITED.jpg| Back State Room
Image:Hals obraz 1.jpg| [[Frans Hals]] - ''The Laughing Cavalier''
Image:Tizian 052.jpg| [[Titian]] - ''Perseus and Andromeda''
</Gallery>
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.wallacecollection.org/ Official website of the '''Wallace Collection''']
* [http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_visit_wallace.html A Visitor's Experience: The Wallace Collection]
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