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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 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.
-==Departments== 
-[[File:Tizian 052.jpg|thumb|[[Titian]] - ''Perseus and Andromeda'', c. 1554-56]] 
-[[File:Diego Velázquez 057.jpg|thumb|[[Diego Velázquez]] - [[The Lady with a Fan (Velázquez)|Lady with a Fan]]]] 
-[[File:Rembrandt - The Artist's Son Titus - WGA19171.jpg|thumb|[[Rembrandt]] - The Artist's Son Titus, c. 1657]] 
-[[File:Anthonis van Dyck 031.jpg|thumb|[[Anthony Van Dyck]] - Porträt des Philippe Le Roy, 1630]] 
-[[File:Rubens, consegna delle chiavi.JPG|thumb|[[Peter Paul Rubens]] - Christ's Charge to Peter, c. 1616]] 
-[[File:Antoine Watteau 059.jpg|thumb|[[Antoine Watteau]] - ''A Lady at her Toilet'', c. 1716-18)]] 
-[[File:Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - Venice - The Bacino from the Giudecca - WGA03920.jpg|thumb|[[Canaletto|Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)]] - ''The Bacino from the Giudecca, Venice'', c. 1740]] 
-[[File:Francois Boucher lever du soleil wallace collection.jpg|thumb|[[François Boucher]] - ''The Rising of the Sun'', 1753]] 
-[[File:Thomas Gainsborough - Mrs. Mary Robinson ("Perdita") - WGA08417.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Gainsborough]] - [[Mary Robinson (poet)|Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita)]], c. 1781]] 
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-The Wallace Collection is split into six curatorial departments, Pictures and Miniatures, Ceramics and Glass, Sculpture and Works of Art, Arms and Armour, Sèvres porcelain and Gold Boxes and Furniture. 
==Pictures and miniatures== ==Pictures and miniatures==

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The Wallace Collection is a British museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts 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.


Pictures and miniatures

The Wallace 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 Wallace Collection is particularly strong in Dutch and 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, Fragonard, Murillo, Titian, Poussin and Velázquez.

The inventory of pictures, watercolours and drawings comprises all the major European schools.

Paintings, drawing and watercolours from the Wallace Collection

Dutch School

English School

Flemish School

French School

Italian School

Spanish School


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