BIB_ID
124429
Accession number
MA 1581.19
Creator
Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828.
Display Date
London, 1823 July 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, located in London.
The paintings referred to in the letter became part of the nucleus of the National Gallery.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Beaumont gifts to the British Museum, no. 8).
The paintings referred to in the letter became part of the nucleus of the National Gallery.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Beaumont gifts to the British Museum, no. 8).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Expressing the thanks of the trustees of the British Museum for Beaumont's gift of a "valuable collection of Pictures" intended for "the uses of the Public, & for the advancement of the Art of painting"; writing that "[a] collection of Pictures formed by no ordinary Head, & transferred by the Collector during his lifetime to the British Museum, is a fact which should seem to point authoritatively to that Institution, as the proper national Depository of works of Art, as well as Science."
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