This book provides an introduction to the museums treasures and the fascinating history of its founders, the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace. Assembled entirely in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Collection was bequeathed to the nation by the widow of Sir Richard Wallace in 1897. With commentaries on more than 400 works of art, all of them beautifully illustrated, this book provides an excellent overview of the Collection and an enduring reference to many key themes in European art.
ISBN 1857594126
Price: £30.00
The Wallace Collection (Paperback)
The paperback version of our bestselling title. Available in both English and French.
ISBN 1857594223
Price: £15.00
The Wallace Collection Guidebook
A fascinating and informative room by room guide to the Wallace Collection. This guide gives a short history of the museum and its founders, then describes and illustrates a selection of the finest works of art in each gallery. It is the perfect accompaniment for anyone visiting the Wallace Collection. Includes an easy to follow plan of the rooms, highlights checklist and index.
Available in English
New edition 2003
128 pages, over 250 colour illustrations
300 x 185 mm
Price: £7.00
The Founders of the Wallace Collection
This book is an historical account providing brief memoirs of the collectors of
The Wallace Collection. The Collection was principally formed by the 4th Marquess of Hertford within the period 1840 - 70. But added to the nucleus he acquired are other items provided by his forbears, the 1st,2nd and 3rd Marquesses, and by his illegitimate son who became Sir Richard Wallace.
Price: £5.00
The Wallace Collection’s Pictures: A complete catalogue
This one- volume catalogue of all the Wallace Collection’s pictures, contains reproductions in colour of the paintings with the latest information concerning their attribution. In addition, precious insight is afforded into the collecting history of the Seymour-Conway family who amassed one of the greatest of all private collections.
ISBN 0906290384
Price: £50.00
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain
Rosalind Savill, Director, The Wallace Collection
The remarkable collection of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802 and c. 1875 now forms a distinguished part of The Wallace Collection.It is here catalogued as a set of three volumes - Volume One: Vases, Volume Two: Tea wares, useful wares, biscuit figures and plaques, Volume Three: References, appendices and index. Every piece is illustrated and each volume contains descriptions of every model, its history and design, the social and decorative function behind the various pieces, the factory's craftsmen, the patrons and the buyers, including the kings of France and their court, and an insight into the taste and connoisseurship of four generations of the extraordinary family who were responsible for the collection at Hertford House.
1988
1272 pages, 314 colour, 366 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
3 volumes in a slipcase Hardback - £120.00
ISBN 0 900785 27 6
Paperback - £60.00
ISBN 0 900785 31 4
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture
Peter Hughes, Formerly Curator of Furniture
The Wallace Collection has the finest collection of eighteenth-century furniture outside France. Numbering over five hundred pieces, it includes furniture by the greatest Parisian cabinet makers, beginning with André-Charles Boulle and continuing through the major craftsmen of the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
The Catalogue of Furniture replaces has 337 entries, some covering more than one piece of furniture, and is divided into three volumes, each one containing beautiful illustrations.
The entries cover the materials, construction and decoration of each piece, with an account of its history and a commentary on its dating, style and maker.
There is an introduction recounting the part played by different generations of the Hertford family in acquiring the furniture 1667 pages 384 colour illustrations, 689 black and white illustrations and 33 diagrams and musical scores.
240 x 195mm
Hardback 1996 - £235.00
ISBN 0 900785 56
Paperback 1999 - £100.00
ISBN 0 900785 51 9
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures
The paintings at The Wallace Collection are described in four separate volumes. All the works are illustrated and there are a number of comparative plates showing related studies, engravings, infra-red photographs and X-radiographs.
Every illustration in the softback version is in black and white. The hardback version contains selected colour plates of works and details, carefully chosen to highlight an artist's particular style.
I British, German, Italian, Spanish
John Ingamells, Formerly Director
This catalogue describes in detail 151 paintings and 60 drawings of the British, German, Italian and Spanish schools.
It includes outstanding works by Gainsborough, Lawrence, Reynolds, Canaletto, Guardi, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Murillo and Velázquez, and a collection of 10 oils and 25 water-colours by Bonington. The introduction provides an insight into the taste of the four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace as represented by their acquisitions.
1985
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 16 0
464 pages, 355 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£5.00
Hardback
ISBN 0 900785 17 9
464 pages, 14 colour, 341 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£10.00
II French Nineteenth Century
John Ingamells, Formerly Director
This second volume of the Catalogue of Pictures describes in detail 134 paintings and 57 water-colours by French artists, representative of the taste of the official Salon between 1820 and 1860.
The subjects include Eastern scenes, the Napoleonic Legend and themes from the great romantic writers, such as Scott and Byron. Artists such as Decamps, Delaroche, Meissonier and Horace Vernet are represented, as are works by Delacroix, Dupré, Géricault and Théodore Rousseau.
An illustrated introductory essay examines the attitude to contemporary French painting of the 4th Marquess of Hertford, the chief collector of the works represented.
1986
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 19 5
326 pages, 233 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£5.00
Hardback
ISBN 0 900785 18 7
326 pages, 9 colour, 224 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£10.00
III French before 1815
John Ingamells, Formerly Director
This third volume of the Catalogue of Pictures describes in detail 144 paintings and 8 drawings and watercolours; of these, 140 date from the eighteenth century.
The Wallace Collection has always been celebrated for its French eighteenth-century pictures which form the finest collection outside France, including 19 paintings by Boucher, 8 by Fragonard and 7 by Watteau.
The catalogue also describes works by Poussin, Claude and Philippe de Champaigne amongst other artists. An introductory essay describes the circumstances in which the 4th Marquess of Hertford, the chief collector of the works represented, collected his French eighteenth-century paintings.
1989
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 357
410 pages, 220 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£5.00
Hardback
ISBN 0 900785 365
410 pages, 17 colour, 203 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£10.00
IV Dutch and Flemish
John Ingamells, Formerly Director
The fourth and final volume of the Catalogue of Pictures describes in detail 219 paintings and two drawings, of which 173 are Dutch and 48 Flemish, the majority from the seventeenth century.
They include pictures of the highest quality by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, ter Borch and Ruisdael. An introductory essay explores nineteenth-century taste as it is reflected in the selection of Dutch and Flemish pictures in The Wallace Collection.
1992
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 38 1
493 pages 249 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£5.00
Hardback
ISBN 0 900785 37 3
493 pages, 19 colour, 230 black & white illustrations
240 x 195mm
£10.00
The Hertford Mawson Letters
Edited by John Ingamells, Formerly Director, The Wallace Collection
This book provides an intimate glimpse into the character of one of the most outstanding art connoisseurs of the nineteenth century, the fourth Marquess of Hertford, who was assisted by Samuel Mawson, his trusted agent.
The correspondence between the two men forms the basis of this fascinating volume, which highlights not only the Marquess's taste and personality, but also fellow collectors and the contemporary art market.
1981
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 25 X
143 pages, 40 black & white illustrations
240 x 150mm
£1.00
Van Gogh and Sir Richard Wallace's Pictures
Martin Bailey, Author of 'Young Vincent: …Van Gogh's Years in England'
During his stay in England between 1875 and 1876 Vincent Van Gogh was a regular museum visitor.
One of the places he visited was the Bethnal Green Museum in the East End of London where, between 1872 and 1875, the art collection of Sir Richard Wallace was exhibited. In letters to his brother Theo, Van Gogh expressed admiration for four paintings in Wallace's collection: Margaret at the Fountain and The Return of the Prodigal Son by Ary Scheffer, The Forest of Fontainbleu by Theodore Rousseau and The Halt by Ernest Meissonier.
This catalogue, based on new research, documents the Wallace Collection's association with Van Gogh and the paintings he admired.
1997
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 65 9
25 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 11 black & white illustrations
246 x 168mm
£1.00
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Miniatures
Graham Reynolds, Formerly Keeper of Paintings, Prints & Drawings, The Victoria & Albert Museum
Comprising English, French and Continental works of art ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the collection of miniatures is fully described and illustrated in this catalogue. Each work is shown in black and white, with eight colour plates of selected miniatures. It is prefaced by an introduction to the range and formation of the collection by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace.
1980
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 21 7
366 pages, 15 colour, 377 black & white illustrations
240 x 150mm
£1.00
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Ceramics 1: Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware
A.V.B. Norman, Formerly Assistant to the Director, The Wallace Collection
The collection of maiolica at The Wallace Collection is one of the most important in the world. There are numerous works from Urbino, as well as many fine examples from the other major centres. Smaller groups of Hispano-Moresque, Palissy, German and Isnik wares are also fully catalogued in this pioneering work. The catalogue is especially valuable for its essay on the history of the taste such wares.
1976
Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 06 3
450 pages, 2 colour, 309 black & white illustrations
