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Wallace Collection

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Wallace Collection: see under Wallace, Sir Richard Wallace Collection to the government in 1897. Especially fine in the 18th-century French schools, it has been open to the public since 1900 in Hertford House, London.

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See H. C. Shelley, The Art of the Wallace Collection (1913).
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The Frick Collection in New York, the Wallace Collection in London, the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome, and the Musee Nissim de Camondo in Paris form but a short list of private collections gone public.
Many fine collections came together for this January event; the most notable of which was the David Wallace Collection, where every lot realized well above the published wholesale lists.
One is to feed the mouth that bites them, so to speak, by bringing in some institutional critique; the holdings will look stronger for having survived the in-house sniping (as Karen Knorr's recent exhibition of photographs at the Wallace Collection demonstrated).
 
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