The Wallace Collection (is) the finest collection of art ever assembled by one family and now s national museum. Five generations of collections, four Marquises of Hereford and Sir Richard Wallace, each made their own special contribution. The Wallace Collection a national museums in the heart of London, own one of the finest collection of fine and decorative art in the world. The Collection was bequeathed to the British nation by the widow of Sir Richard Wallace in 1897. The Collection was assembled entirely in the 18C and 19C. It is an oasis of European art in the heart of London, with emphasizes on French arts.

1. First created 4 Sep 2013. Version 3.0 - 6 Oct 2021. Daperro. London.
Wallace
Collection,
London
Painting Collection Only
Titus Rembrandt, the artist’s son. C1657.

2. 18th Century French Painting
French Paintings
“One of the best places in the UK
to see examples of French visual
and decorative arts of the Rococo
and Neoclassical periods is in the
Wallace Collection” Wikipedia on
18th-century French art.
The collection was formed over five
generations and given to the
Nation in 1897, by the last
descendant in this branch of the
family. In the 19C, the family was
based in Paris and London and the
European character of the
Collection can still be seen today.

3. Carle van Loo 1727

4. Lemoyne 1737
“Rococo” was an European artistic
movement in the 18th Century. Antoine
Watteau (1684-1721), Francois
Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honore
Fragonard (1732-1806) were among
the more important French painters of
the movement.

5. Nattier 1733.
Orientalism in the 18C.

6. Boucher 1732

7. Boucher 1753

8. Boucher 1753.
Boucher was the most typical
Rococo decorator and the
friend and protégé of Madame
de Pompadour. He began as an
engraver of Watteau and won
the Prix de Rome in 1723. He
admired Tiepolo decorative
works.
Boucher more well-known painting of
Blonde Odalisque. APM.

9. Boucher 1754.
This is the detail of a set of
three paintings by
Boucher, on Greek
mythology on the life of
Venus. (see next slide).

10. Life of Venue. Boucher 1754.

11. Boucher 1754.
Venus was the Roman
goddess of love and fertility
and often symbolized visual
beauty. Beauty and desire
were the central concerns of
the 18C French art and
Venus is thus one of its most
commonly depicted deities.

12. Boucher 1759
Boucher was a friend and protégé of
Madame Pompadour.

13. Fragonard 1767

14. Fragonard 1776
Fragonard studies under the
French painter Chardin for a few
months and then under Boucher
for about 2 years.

15. Fragonard 1785.

16. Vernet 1754.

17. Vigee-Lebrun 1789

18. Greuze 1790s
Greuze (1725-1805) was a
popular French painter from
about 1755 to 1780. To the
modern eyes his paintings seem
sentimental and melodramatic.
He often extolled the simple
virtues of family harmony and the
simple life. His heroine appears
possessed of the heady
combination of sexual innocence
and emotional depth.

19. Dumont 1793
Francois Dumont (1751-1831) was a
miniaturist and a member of the
Royal Academy in London.
Marguerite Gerard was the sister-in-law of
Fragonard and studied under him.

20. Delaroche 1829
Delaroche was a painter of historical Romanticism.

21. Delacroix 1829
Delacroix most famous printing – Liberty
Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
was an important painter of the
Romantic movement in France.
He is also a colourist.

22. Horace Vernet 1821
Wallace Collection has a very comprehensive collection on the painter Horace Vernet.

23. Horace Vernet 1820

24. Horace Vernet 1633

25. Horace Vernet 1636

26. Horace Vernet 1637

27. Bonheur c1874
Head of a Calf. 1878. Private Collection.
Rosa Bonheur was an animal
printer. She painted domestic,
farm, working and wildlife
animals. She painted Brizo as an
intelligent and watchful dog.

28. Isabey 1852

29. Isabey 1852 (Detail)

30. Isabey 1852 (Detail)

31. Dutch Paintings
Bol 1650
There is a significant
collection of Dutch paintings
in the Wallace Collection,
by such artists as Frans Hals,
Rembrandt, Aelbert Cuyp,
Gabriel Metsu, Jan Steen,
Jan van Huysum etc.

32. Hals 1624

33. Hals 1624
This is a masterpiece portrait by Frans Hals. The Cavalier was 26 years old.
Perhaps it was painted to celebrates this enigmatic young man’s betrothal symbols
of love are depicted in the embroidery on his jacket.

34. DeHeems 1643

35. Cuyp 1650s

36. Rembrandt 1657
Titus was the 4th child of
Rembrandt and the only
surviving child of Rembrandt.
After Rembrandt bankruptcy,
Titus was put in charge of
Rembrandt’s works and began
to sell his work for him. Titus
got marry and had a
daughter. In 1668, he died at
the age of 26, a year before
his father.

37. Metsu 1658
Gabriel Metsu (1629-67) was a
painter of still life, portraits and
genre.
One of Metsu more famous printing

38. Netscher 1662.
Caspar Netscher (1635/7 –
1684) was born in Prague or
Heidelberg. He specialised
mainly in genre, with the
occasional religous and
classical subject. In 1662 he
settled in The Hague, giving
up genre scenes for small
scale half-length portraits.

39. Van de Velde the Younger. 1665.

40. Van de Velde the Younger. 1665. (Detail).

41. Weenix. 1700-10.

42. Steen. 1672.

43. Huysum. 1726.
Jan van Huysum
(1682 – 1749) was
vastly acclaimed as
a flower painter.

44. Spanish
Paintings
Velazquez 1630.
Velazquez

45. Italian
Paintings
Canaletto 1735

46. Canaletto 1735

47. Canaletto 1735 (Detail)

48. Guardi 1770

49. Reynolds 1775
English
Paintings

50. Romney 1780
Reynolds, Romney and Lawrence
were amongst some of the
portraits of England in the 18th
century.
George Romney (1734-1802) was
the most fashionable artist of his
day. He was ranked below
Reynolds. He strength was telling
the disposition of the figure, the
linear pattern of his design.

51. Lawrence 1800
Portrait of a Lady. C1800. 76x63 cm. Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). English. Wallace Collection.
Thomas Lawrence

52. Landseer 1866

53. Bonington 1823

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