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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
Letter II.
as Lord Ellenborough and Mr. Green. A number of gentlemen
have in their collections adhered, though not exclusively so, to
the taste of the preceding period, such as Mr. Wynn Ellis, Mr.
Heusch, Mr. Charles Bredell, Lord Overstone, Mr. Ford, Baron
Lionel Rothschild, Sir Anthony Rothschild, Mr. Fountaine, Mr.
Foster, Mr. Henry Bevan, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Frederick Perkins,
Mr. Robarts, and Mr, Wombwell.
At the same time the taste for pictures of the English school
has exceedingly increased. Among the larger and smaller col-
lections of this kind which have been formed since 1835, I need
only mention the following :—That presented to the nation by
Mr. Vernon, that of Mr. Sheepshanks, of Mr. Baring, of Lord
Lansdowne, of Messrs. Bicknell, Young, and Gibbons.
In the department of drawings by the old masters, the collec-
tion belonging to the Taylor Museum at Oxford, consisting of
a considerable number of drawings by Raphael and Michael
Angelo, which would take precedence even in the largest collec-
tions of this kind, must be mentioned first here. The drawings
were purchased from Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection by means
of the private subscription of a few friends of art, assisted'by a
liberal present on the part of Lord Eldon. Next in degree among
private collections may be considered that of Dr. Wellesley, at
Oxford; Messrs. Bailey, C. Sackville Bale, Davenport Bromley,
Bryant, Chambers Hall, Flaywood Flawkins, Flolford, Andrew
James, Proctor, Russell, Strutt, and Stuart, possess also more or
less numerous specimens of great value.
The taste for the miniatures of the middle ages has also greatly
increased, and Lord Ashburnham has amassed a collection which
in number and value far exceeds any other private collection
in the world, and stands on a par in many respects with those
in the first public libraries. Next in order may be considered
the valuable though limited collections of the late Duke of Hamil-
ton, of Mr. Holford, and of Mr. Johnson, the professor of astro-
nomy at Oxford, all containing most interesting specimens.
Nor has the popular taste for engravings and etchings in any
way diminished. The principal collections are those of Mr.
Holford, containing impressions moderate in number but selected
with the utmost taste ; of Dr. Wellesley of Oxford, of far greater
extent; of Mr. Johnson of the same city ; of Mr. Hawkins of
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
Letter II.
as Lord Ellenborough and Mr. Green. A number of gentlemen
have in their collections adhered, though not exclusively so, to
the taste of the preceding period, such as Mr. Wynn Ellis, Mr.
Heusch, Mr. Charles Bredell, Lord Overstone, Mr. Ford, Baron
Lionel Rothschild, Sir Anthony Rothschild, Mr. Fountaine, Mr.
Foster, Mr. Henry Bevan, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Frederick Perkins,
Mr. Robarts, and Mr, Wombwell.
At the same time the taste for pictures of the English school
has exceedingly increased. Among the larger and smaller col-
lections of this kind which have been formed since 1835, I need
only mention the following :—That presented to the nation by
Mr. Vernon, that of Mr. Sheepshanks, of Mr. Baring, of Lord
Lansdowne, of Messrs. Bicknell, Young, and Gibbons.
In the department of drawings by the old masters, the collec-
tion belonging to the Taylor Museum at Oxford, consisting of
a considerable number of drawings by Raphael and Michael
Angelo, which would take precedence even in the largest collec-
tions of this kind, must be mentioned first here. The drawings
were purchased from Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection by means
of the private subscription of a few friends of art, assisted'by a
liberal present on the part of Lord Eldon. Next in degree among
private collections may be considered that of Dr. Wellesley, at
Oxford; Messrs. Bailey, C. Sackville Bale, Davenport Bromley,
Bryant, Chambers Hall, Flaywood Flawkins, Flolford, Andrew
James, Proctor, Russell, Strutt, and Stuart, possess also more or
less numerous specimens of great value.
The taste for the miniatures of the middle ages has also greatly
increased, and Lord Ashburnham has amassed a collection which
in number and value far exceeds any other private collection
in the world, and stands on a par in many respects with those
in the first public libraries. Next in order may be considered
the valuable though limited collections of the late Duke of Hamil-
ton, of Mr. Holford, and of Mr. Johnson, the professor of astro-
nomy at Oxford, all containing most interesting specimens.
Nor has the popular taste for engravings and etchings in any
way diminished. The principal collections are those of Mr.
Holford, containing impressions moderate in number but selected
with the utmost taste ; of Dr. Wellesley of Oxford, of far greater
extent; of Mr. Johnson of the same city ; of Mr. Hawkins of