Regency Collectors – Buying and Displaying Old Masters in Early Nineteenth–Century Britain - Peter Humfrey

The Regency was a period of crucial importance in the history of collecting Old Master paintings in England. As the owners of aristocratic collections in France and Italy were forced by the political upheavals following the French Revolution to part with their inherited possessions, Old Masters arrived on the London art market in unprecedented quantity and quality. This book presents seven case studies of English collectors of the period, tracing how their collections were formed, and analysing the... Zobrazit více