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Wallace Collection
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The Entrance Hall with its beautiful bronze gilded staircase balustrade made in France in 1719.
The CollectionThe museum has a large number of armours and
weapons, including armours from other parts of the
world, particularly India.
The museum has an impressive collection of French
and Italian ceramic. Its collection of Serves ware is
vast and varies.
The house is filled with French Rococo furniture of
18C.
It has a large collection of paintings, in particular
French Rococo paintings, French Orientalism and
Dutch 17C paintings, supplemented by Venetian
vedute paintings.
The collection of artefacts are found mainly on the ground floor.
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The Great Gallery was specially built to display the family’s collection.
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French Paintings
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Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was
the best female portrait
painter of her times. She
painted over 30 portraits of
Marie Antoinette and her
family.
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A masterpiece by Frans Hals.
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well-known for his
still life of flower
paintings.
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Italian Paintings
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History & FountainThe building was the family home of Marquess of
Hertford. In 1897, Lady Wallace, who was
French, died and left the collection and the house to
the nation. The Wallace Collection was opened to
the public as a national museum in 1990.
The family had a long association with France. The
3rd Marquess’ wife settled in Paris, in 1802. The 4th
Marquess moved more or less permanently to Paris
in 1838. The last heir Sir Richard Wallace grew up
and lived in Paris.
In 1872, it was Richard Wallace who donated some
50 drinking fountains to Paris, after his experience of
the 1870 siege of Paris by the Prussian army. The
fountains are common sights of Paris today.
The peaceful café-restaurant of the museum.
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Music – Parisienne Walkway composed by Gary
Moore, from the album Guitar Moods.
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