The Wallace Collection

By John Ingamellis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1870248430
• ISBN13: 9781870248433
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Scala Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.

Customer Reviews

useful introduction to Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection was bequeathed to the British nation by the widow of Sir Richard Wallace in 1897. The museum, to be found in the heart of London, was the former Wallace residence. I found my visit there to be a charming and memorable experience. The numerous and varied art and decorative art works are presented in a somewhat old fashioned and cluttered manner. There are a number of renowned paintings in the collection-by the likes of Watteau, Rubens, de Hooch, Canaletto and Boucher. The prize possession would be Franz Hals's "Laughing Cavalier". Additionally there is a large array of furniture, armour, statues, snuffboxes and so forth. There is a strong leaning towards French items; the large array of Sevres porcelain is particularly renowned. This publication supplies liberal color illustrations (of a reasonable quality)and brief annotations of noted art works in the Wallace Collection. A good overview of this venerated British museum.

Almost perfect

The photos in this book are excellent but it would have been nice to see a few more shots of whole rooms (as opposed to just individual objects) to see how the collection is actually arranged. The only such photo is of the Front State Room but the Wallace Collection website has a nice virtual tour with photos of many other rooms.