Collection: The Wallace Collection

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Wikipedia)

  The Collection numbers nearly 5,500 objects, a range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The collection is known for its 18th-century French paintings, Sèvres porcelain and French furniture but also displays other objects, such as arms and armour featuring both European and Oriental objects, as well as displays of gold boxes, miniatures, sculpture and medieval and Renaissance works of art such as maiolica, glass, bronzes and Limoges enamels.

  The works of art in the Collection comprise:

  • Paintings, watercolours and drawings 775
  • Furniture 528
  • Ceramics 510
  • European and Oriental arms and armour 2,370
  • Sculpture 466
  • Miniatures 334
  • Medieval and Renaissance works of art 363
  • Goldsmiths’ work 120

  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

  The Wallace Collection’s Old Master paintings are some of the most prominent in the world, and date from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries. The highlights include Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 17th century, 18th- and 19th-century French paintings, and works by English, Italian and Spanish artists. Strengths of the collection include 5 Rembrandts (and school), 9 Rubens’s, 4 Van Dycks, 8 Canalettos, 9 Guardis, 19 François Bouchers, Fragonard, 9 Murillos, 9 Teniers, 2 Titians, Poussin, 3 Velázquezs and 8 Watteaus. The inventory of pictures, watercolours and drawings comprises all the major European schools.

  Paintings, drawing and watercolours in the collection

  • British, German, Spanish, and Italian – 151 paintings, 60 drawings
  • French (19th century) – 134 paintings, 57 watercolours
  • French (before 1815) – 144 paintings, 8 drawings and watercolours
  • Dutch – 173 paintings, 2 drawings
  • Flemish – 8 paintings

  Dutch School

  • Ferdinand Bol – 1 painting
  • Gerard ter Borch – 2 paintings
  • Aelbert Cuyp – 5 paintings
  • Gerrit Dou – 1 painting
  • Frans Hals – 1 painting
  • Bartholomeus van der Helst – 1 painting
  • Meyndert Hobbema – 5 paintings
  • Melchior d’Hondecoeter – 3 paintings
  • Pieter de Hooch – 2 paintings including A Boy Bringing Bread and A Woman Peeling Apples
  • Gabriel Metsu – 5 paintings
  • Adriaen van Ostade – 2 paintings
  • Isack van Ostade – 2 paintings
  • Rembrandt – 5 paintings
  • Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – 4 paintings
  • Frans Snyders – 1 painting
  • Jan Steen – 5 paintings
  • Adriaen van de Velde – 2 paintings
  • Willem van de Velde the Younger – 8 paintings
  • Jan Weenix – 13 paintings
  • Philips Wouwerman – 6 paintings

  English School

  • Thomas Gainsborough – 2 paintings
  • John Hoppner – 1 painting
  • Sir Edwin Landseer – 4 paintings
  • Thomas Lawrence – 5 paintings
  • Joshua Reynolds – 12 paintings
  • J. M. W. Turner – 4 paintings

  Flemish School

  • Hans Memling – 1 painting
  • Pieter Pourbus – 1 painting
  • Pourbus the Elder, Frans – 1 painting
  • Peter Paul Rubens – 9 paintings
  • David Teniers the Younger – 9 paintings
  • Anthony van Dyck – 4 paintings

  French School

  • François Boucher – 17 paintings (one of the largest holdings of his works in the world)
  • Philippe de Champaigne – 4 paintings
  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – 1 painting
  • Eugène Delacroix – 2 paintings including The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero
  • Hippolyte Delaroche – 12 paintings
  • Gaspard Dughet – 1 painting
  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard – 8 paintings including his masterpiece, The Swing
  • Théodore Géricault – 2 paintings
  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze – 19 paintings
  • Nicolas Lancret – 11 paintings

  Italian School

  • Francesco Albani – 1 painting
  • Canaletto, (Giovanni Antonio Canal) – 8 paintings
  • Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano – 2 paintings
  • Carlo Crivelli – 1 painting
  • (Domenichino) – 1 painting
  • Francesco Guardi – 9 paintings
  • Bernardino Luini – 4 paintings
  • Salvator Rosa – 1 painting (one of the finest Rosas in existence)
  • Andrea del Sarto – 1 painting
  • Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) – 2 paintings including one of the six Poise’s commissioned on Philip II of Spain
  • Sassoferrato – 3 paintings

  Spanish School

  • Alonso Cano – 1 painting
  • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo – 9 paintings (one of the largest holdings of his works in the world)
  • Diego Velázquez – 2 paintings including Lady with a Fan, one of the artist’s greatest paintings

  Ceramics

  There are fine examples of porcelain on display, including Meissen porcelain, and one of the world’s major collections of 18th-century Sèvres porcelain. It includes 137 vases, 80 tea wares, 67 useful wares, 3 biscuit figures and 130 plaques (mostly on furniture), and was acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802–75. Ceramics

  There are fine examples of porcelain on display, including Meissen porcelain, and one of the world’s major collections of 18th-century Sèvres porcelain. It includes 137 vases, 80 tea wares, 67 useful wares, 3 biscuit figures and 130 plaques (mostly on furniture), and was acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802–75.

  Arms and armour

  [See images and captions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Collection#Arms_and_armour ]

  Furniture

  The Wallace Collection holds one of the most important collections of French furniture in the UK, and ranks alongside the Musée du Louvre, the Royal Collection, Waddesdon Manor, the collections of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as one of the greatest and most celebrated in the world. Totalling more than five hundred pieces, the collection consists largely of 18th-century French furniture but also includes some significant pieces of 19th-century French furniture, as well as interesting Italian furniture and a few English and German pieces. The collection ranges from cabinet furniture, much of which is veneered with brass and turtleshell marquetry (commonly known as “Boulle” marquetry) or with wood marquetry, to seat furniture, clocks and barometers, gilt-bronze items including mounted porcelain and hardstones, mantelpieces, mirrors, boxes and pedestals. One highlight is the major collection of furniture attributed to André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732).

  Joseph Baumhauer – 1 item

  • Bas d’armoire, c. 1765–1770

  André-Charles Boulle – 22 items

  • Armoire, c. 1695;
  • Armoire, c. 1700;
  • Armoire, c. 1700;
  • Armoire, c. 1715;
  • Bureau plat, c. 1700–1710;
  • Cabinet avec son pied, c. 1667;
  • Cartonnier et pendule, c. 1715;
  • Commode, c. 1710;
  • Paire de grande table, c. 1705;
  • Mantle clock, c. 1715;
  • Mantle clock, c. 1726;
  • Médaillier, c. 1710–1720;
  • Miroir de toilette, c. 1713, (delivered to the Duchesse de Berry);
  • Paire de coffre de toilette, c. 1700;
  • Paire de torchéres, c. 1700–1710;
  • Pendule et gaine, c. 1712–1720;
  • Pendule et gaine, c. 1720–1725;
  • Table à mettre dans un trumeau, c. 1705;

  Martin Carlin – 4 items

  • Paire de Encoignures, c. 1772;
  • Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1775;
  • Table en secrétaire, c. 1783;

  Adrien Delorme – 2 items

  • Paire de bibliothèque basse

  Étienne Doirat – 1 item

  • Commode, c. 1720;

  Étienne Levasseur – 5 items

  • Grande Bibliothèque, c. 1775;
  • Paire de bibliothèque basse, c. 1775
  • Paire de meubles à hauteur de’appui, c. 1775

  Alexandre-Jean Oppenord – 3 items

  • Bureau plat, 1710;
  • Commode, c. 1695;
  • Écritoire, c. 1710;

  Jean Henri Riesener – 10 items

  • Commode, delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur de la reine at Versailles, c. 1780;
  • Commode, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for Chateau de Marly, c. 1782;
  • Encoignure, delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1783;
  • Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1783;
  • Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s Petit Triannon at Versailles, c. 1783;
  • Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1780;
  • Bureau à cylindre, delivered to the comte d’Orsay for the Hôtel d’Orsay, c. 1774;
  • Bureau à cylindre, c. 1785;
  • Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1780–1784;
  • Table de toilette, c. 1780–1784;

  Bernard I Van Risen Burgh – 1 item

  • Bureau plat, c. 1719

  Nicolas Sageot – 2 items

  • Commode, c.1700;
  • Commode, c.1710;

  Adam Weisweiler – 4 items

  • Paire de meubles à hauteur de’appui, c. 1780
  • Paire de meubles à hauteur de’appui, c. 1785–1790

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  Source: Wikipedia

  Date: 2025

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