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WALLACE
COLLECTIONADDRESS: HERTFORD HOUSE MANCHESTER SQUARE LONDON W1U 3BN phone:020 7563 9500 nearest train station: The Wallace Collection is both a national
museum and the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one
family. It was bequeathed to the nation byT Lady Wallace, widow of Sir
Richard Wallace, in 1897, and opened to the public just over three years
later on 22 June 1900. Its first visitors were variously delighted,
amazed and bemused. Among its treasures are one of the best collections
of French 18th-century pictures, porcelain and furniture in the world, a
remarkable array of 17th-century paintings and a superb armoury. Also
here you will find other treasures and paintings such as by Titian,
Rembrandt and Frans Hals (The Laughing Cavalier). |
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