THE WALLACE COLLECTION
Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1
020 7563 9500
www.wallacecollection.org.
Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00; Sun 12.00-17.00
Price:Free.
The finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family including French 18th century pictures, porcelain and furniture and a remarkable array of 17th century paintings.
From Arp to Bourgeois.Until 10 September.Full of bright and wonderfully imaginative objects, this exhibition features porcelain, modern art and contemporary design.
The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.
It is probably best known for its paintings by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, Hals (The Laughing Cavalier) and Velázquez and for its superb collections of eighteenth-century French paintings, porcelain, furniture and gold boxes, probably the best to be found anywhere outside France.
Here you can find out more about how the Wallace Collection was formed, the history of Hertford House, and the story of the Collection as a public museum for more than one hundred years.
But there are also splendid medieval and Renaissance objects, including Limoges enamels, maiolica, glass and bronzes, as well as the finest array of princely arms and armour in Britain, featuring both European and Oriental objects.
The Wallace Collection is a national museum which displays the wonderful works of art collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Sir Richard's widow, Lady Wallace, in 1897.
Displayed at Hertford House, the main London townhouse of its former owners, the Wallace Collection presents its outstanding collections in a sumptuous but approachable manner which is an essential part of its charm. The building itself has had a fascinating history. Many changes have taken place since it was built, as Manchester House, in the late eighteenth century.
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