BIB_ID
413656
Accession number
MA 1581.17
Display Date
Place not identified, 1800s.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.6 x 20.5 cm
Notes
It is not known when this copy was made, or in whose hand it is written. It was most probably drawn up around the time of the gift, but this cannot be confirmed.
The list is followed by a note with the following text: "The above list was sent to the Trustees of the British Museum in June 1823 by Sir G Beaumont engaging to present them all to form the commencement of a national Gallery about to be built whenever it is in a state to receive them."
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. 6).
The list is followed by a note with the following text: "The above list was sent to the Trustees of the British Museum in June 1823 by Sir G Beaumont engaging to present them all to form the commencement of a national Gallery about to be built whenever it is in a state to receive them."
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. 6).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Consisting of a list of paintings given by Beaumont to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, including the paintings described as follows: "Rubens Country house"; "Claude Lorraine representing the story Narcissus"; "a small sun set by Claude Cephalus & Procris"; "a Landscape Nicolo Poussin a man near fountain washing his feet"; "a view in Venice Canaletto"; "a large upright by Rembrandt a Jew"; and "a picture by Titian Virgin & child with St John."
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