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Anne St John Maxwell Adams (née Trefusis) 
Paintings

Portrait by Francis Alleyne of The Hon Anne St John Trefusis (Mrs Maxwell Adams) placed at auction [Lot no. 243] at Busby Auctions, Bridport, 17/09/2015.

 
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William Alexander of St Vincent 
Indirect benefactor
Bromley College  
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William Alexander's sister Elizabeth Rose left £8000 to Bromley College in her will, as residuary legatee of her...
Alexander Allardyce 
Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania  
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William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 74, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...
John Allen of Inchmartine 
Paintings

The Allen Brothers (Portrait of James and John Lee Allen) by Henry Raeburn, early 1790s, painted for John Allen, now in the Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth Texas.

 
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Haynes Gibbes Alleyne 
Trustee
Australian Museum  
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Mather Byles Almon 
Governor
Dalhousie University  
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Governor
Dalhousie University  
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Rev. Robert White Almond 
Founder member
Nottingham Subscription Library (Bromley House Library)  
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Robert White Almond was one of the principal founders of the Nottingham Subscription Library (NSL), which - in its new name Bromley House Library - in 2017 still occupies the property that was...
George Henry Ames 
Founder member?
Camden Society  
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James Hughes Anderdon 
Paintings

Old Masters and modern pictures

 
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The Tate has John Constable's 'Malvern Hall, Warwickshire' (1809), acquired by Anderdon by 1840 and sold 1879 to George Salting,  who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in 1910,...
John Proctor Anderdon 
Paintings

Carita, by Andrea del Sarto, now in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, purchased by John Proctor Anderdon in 1826.

 
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Paintings

On 15/05/1847, Christie & Manson sold the 'celebrated and very important collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, of John Proctor Anderdon.' Anderdon had expected them to fetch some £10,000.

 
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https://archive.org/details/catalogueofceleb00chri [accessed...
 
Paintings

Four Angels by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682). Oil on canvas: 18 1/4 x 24 1/8 inches (46.4 x 61.3 cm).

Part of the collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures owned by John Proctor Anderson and sold on 15 May 1847 by Christie & Manson.

For a description of the painting and an image of it see Robert Simon Fine Art, accessed 26 Sept., 2017.

You can also see the picture here.

Thanks to Allyson Take for help with compiling this entry.

 
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Paintings

The Triumph of David by the Studio of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called Guercino. Oil on canvas 137cm x 180.5cm.

Part of the collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures owned by John Proctor Anderson and sold on 15 May 1847 by Christie & Manson.

For a description of the painting and an image of it see Burghley Collections, accessed 3 Oct., 2017.

Thanks to Allyson Take for help with compiling this entry.

 
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Royal Society  
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Elizabeth or Eliza Angerstein formerly Lucas (née Payne) 
Paintings

Portrait of Mrs John Julius Angerstein, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (n.d.), in the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.

'Sir Thomas Lawrence enjoyed the patronage of John Julius and Elizabeth Angerstein, who were successful English merchants in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mrs. Angerstein’s active pose and purposeful gaze suggests a woman who is both elegant and alert. The spacious composition of unfolding landscape and distant sea confers an aristocratic gravitas: she owns her world as surely as she and her husband own the boat that floats on the sea at right. The Angerstein’s wealth came largely from selling marine insurance, but they were involved in other ventures, including mercantile finance, the creation of Lloyds of London (a business that continues to thrive today) and the slave trade. It is difficult and even painful for us, as American citizens of the twenty-first century, to reconcile the seeming creativity and capabilities of historic figures such as the Angersteins with the cataclysm of trafficking in the enslavement of fellow humans.'

https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/mrs-john-julius-angerstein

 
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John Julius Angerstein 
Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Gillray, James; One of six sketches made for the caricature Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland's; First idea for the principal figure, said to be John Julius Angerstein; Sketched in black chalk; English School; 18th - early 19th century. Related drawings are at: Angerstein 1; Angerstein 2; Angerstein 3; Angerstein 4; Angerstein 5; Angerstein 6.

 
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Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings & Paintings. Thanks...
 
V & A: Prints, Drawings & Paintings

Drawing, Portrait head of a young man, possibly William Lock III of Norbury (1804-1832), by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

 
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V & A: Prints, Drawings & Paintings

Watercolour by Frederick Mackenzie depicting the principal room of the original National Gallery. Great Britain, ca. 1824-34.

 
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V & A: Prints, Drawings & Paintings

Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait, probably of Lady Susan North, c.1815. Graphite and red and black chalk.

 
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Andrew Arcedeckne 
Paintings

Francesco Guardi, Venice: A View of the Rialto Bridge from the Fondamente del Carob (c. 1768). Oil on canvas, 120 x 203.7 cm

 
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The painting was owned by the Arcedeckne family from Chaloner Arcedeckne (1741-1809) until it was sold in 1891 to the Guinness family. See <a...
John Ashley of Clifton and Ashley Hall 
Founder
Bristol Channel Mission  
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Anglican institution, designed to serve crews on board ship, founded in 1835 by the Rev. John Ashley, son of John Ashley of Ashley Hall. Predecessor to the Mission to Seafarers. R.W. H. Miller,...
Alexander Baillie 
Paintings

The Bailie Family, Painting by Thomas Gainsborough 1784, left by Alexander Baillie to the National gallery subject to the life-interest of his brother Evan Hamilton Baillie (who d. 1857).

 
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Drawing of Alexander Baillie in graphite by Ingres, c. 1816, now in a private collection. The drawing was included in the catalogue Portaits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch eds. G. Tinterow and P. Conisbee (Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1999) of an exhibition also shown at the National Gallery in London (pp. 209-210).

 
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Sculpture

Bust of Alexander Baillie by Bertel Thorvaldsen c. 1816 now in the Thorvaldsen Museum.

 
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Sculpture

Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan's Smithy, marble relief by Bertel Thorvaldsen, commissioned by Alexander Baillie and his partner Jorgen Knutzdon c. 1816, reportedly now at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire.

 
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George Baillie 
Subscriber
Tain Royal Academy  
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George Baillie, formerly of the Island of Saint Vincent, is listed as a subscriber of £50 and upwards in the petition to King George the Third in 1807 for the establishment of Tain Royal Academy in...
Hugh Duncan Baillie 
Paintings

The Crucifixion, attributed to Jan Provost c. 1495. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Part of a significant collection amassed by Hugh Duncan Baillie.

 
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James Baillie MP of Bedford Square and Ealing Grove 
Paintings

Painting by Thomas Gainsborough 1784.

 
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Alexander Baring 
Trustee
British Museum  
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Trustee
National Gallery  
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Council member
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray,...
Francis Baring 
Subscriber
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray, 1827), p. 50;...
Henry Barkly 
Fellow
Royal Society  
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Joshua Bates 
Benefactor
Manor Hall Asylum  
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Left $50,000 to Boston Public Library in his will (source:...
Thomas Beach 
Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania  
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C. S. Graubard, 'Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery (2018) via archives.upenn.edu [accessed...
Francis Beckford 
Paintings

Portrait of Francis Beckford by Joshua Reynolds 1755-1756. One of a pair with his wife Suzanna nee Love. Both are now in Tate Britain.

 
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Paintings

Suzanna Beckford, portait by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1755. One of a pair with her husband Francis Beckford. Both are now in Tate Britain.

 
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Peter Beckford junior 
Paintings

Portraits of Peter Beckford and Bathshua Beckford painted by Benjamin West c. 1797, after the deaths of the sitters. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 
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John Caldwell et al. American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol. I pp....
Peter Beckford of Stepleton 
Patron
Muzio Clementi  
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Muzio Clementi, brought to Britain as a young prodigy by Peter Beckford, on whose Dorset estate Clementi lived for seven years. Paul Griffiths, Penguin Companion to Classical Music...
Alderman William Beckford 
Sculpture

Statuette, terracotta, Alderman William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, by Nathaniel Smith, England, 1770.

 
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Isaac Mendes Belisario 
Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Sketches of Character, In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume of the Negro Population in the Island of Jamaica

 
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John Belisario 
Member
Australian Museum  
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Member
Linnean Society of London  
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Moses Benson 
Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania  
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William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 74, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...
Ralph Bernal 
Objets

Collector of glass, plate, ceramics, and miniatures.

 
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According to Helen Davies, entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 'After his death ... the Society of Arts tried to persuade the government to buy the collection en...
Hon. Henry Bishop 
Paintings

BISHOP, Hon. Mrs Henry. Elizabeth Harris, wife of the Hon. Henry Bishop described as 'head of the Court of the Common Pleas of St. Michael'. ? 1803. 30 x 25. Seated half-right, head turned and looking up r., her r. arm over the back of her chair. San Marino . Henry E . Huntington Library and Art Gallery. At one time with Leggatt; purchased by Lady Gilbert Carter in the Barbados ; Jacques Seligman, New York, by whom sold to Mrs Charles Quinn, Los Angeles, who presented it to the Huntington Foundation. Apparently a studio version of Lady Maria Hamilton. There is an entry in the ledgers of Coutts and Co., November, 1803, 'For Mrs. Bishop's picture & frame £67' but it is unlikely to relate to this picture. No other portrait of a Mrs Bishop is known to the compiler

 
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GARLICK, KENNETH. "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence." The Volume of the Walpole Society 39 (1962): 3-336. Accessed April 3, 2020....
Sir George Blackman Harnage Bart. 
Paintings

Portrait of Sir George Blackman by John Hoppner, held by the Bank of England Museum.

 
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William Blake Speaker of the House of Assembly 
Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania  
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William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 73, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...
Samuel Boddington 
Library - books

Collector of art library. Included copies of Blake's Songs of Innocence, America, Europe, Jerusalem and the Gates of Paradise.

 
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Mark Evans, 'Blake, Calvert - and Palmer? The album of Alexander Constantine Ionides', Burlington Magazine, 144 (1194) (2002), p....

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Colin Campbell Lloyd (née Baillie)

1781 - 1830

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.

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Documents of Interest

Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

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