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Index
1st Cheshire Rifles 249, 251
4th Bebington Company 250
34th Regiment of Foot 249
38th Middlesex (Artists’) Rifle Volunteers 251
Abbey of Stavelot, Belgium 283
Abbotsford, Melrose 197
Abeokuta, Nigeria 334
Aberdeen 36
Abu Simbel temples, Egypt 227
Abyssinia (later Ethiopia): Magdala Treasure 222–23
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris 54
Académie Française, Paris 54
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris 54
Academy 175
Aesthetic movement, Aesthetes 24, 266, 284
African art 333–34
Agnew, William 115
Agnew’s 106, 272
Albert, Prince Consort 18, 69, 75, 103–4, 114, 154, 226, 229, 231–34, 334
Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 33–34
Alcock, Sir Rutherford 345, 346
Alexandra, Princess (later Queen) 221
Alfred Jewel 201
Alicante, Spain 167–68
Alnwick Castle 199
Altes Museum, Berlin 238
Amsterdam 165, 169, 178, 269
André, Alfred 306
Angelico, Fra: Adoration of the Magi 64
Anning, Mary 155, 156
anthropology 325
antiquarianism 196–200
Antwerp 172, 173
Arley Castle, Staffordshire 220
Arnold, Matthew: ‘Culture and Anarchy’ articles 24
art critics, female 175, 176
art history 117–18
Art Journal 84–85, 89, 118, 206
Art Nouveau 266
Art Treasures Exhibition (Manchester, 1857) 8, 13, 23, 46, 158, 169, 228–37
Arthur, King 140
‘Artists’ Houses’ 271
Arts and Crafts movement 23–24
Asclepius-Hygieia diptych 227
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 199, 226, 356
Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria 142
Astor, William Waldorf 305
Athenaeum, The 77
Athenaeum Club, Liverpool 196
Athenaeum Club, London 98, 276
Bacon, Sir Nicholas 116
Baedeker (publisher) 339
Bakenkhonsu, sarcophagus of 222, 375
Balmoral Castle, Scotland 104
Baltimore 358, 359
Barnett, Barney 151
Barry, Sir Charles 137
Bastian, Adolph 326
Bastianini, Giovanni 297
Bebington, Merseyside 240, 249, 253, 371, 374
Bedford Park, London 271
Beissel, Stephen 306
Belle Ferronnière, La 307, 308–9
Bellini, Giovanni: Feast of the Gods 267–68
Belzoni, Giovanni 221
Berenson, Bernard 280, 308
Berlin 32, 37, 77
Berlin Museum 293
Bernal, Ralph 32
Bernal collection 32, 149
Bessborough, Blanche, Countess of 174, 183, 186, 374
Bessborough family 174
Bethnal Green, London 108
‘Bezaar stone’ 116
Billy and Charley (Thames scavengers) 298
Birkenhead docks 236
Birmingham 36, 47, 212
Birmingham Museum 110
Birmingham School of Art 299
Bishop, Heber Reginald 361–63
Bisschop, Christoffel 171
Blackfriars Bridge, London 201
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire 29
Board of Trade 21
Bock, Monsieur (Russian dealer) 280
Bologna 62
Bookplate Society 58
Boor’s Bazaar, Rotterdam 163
Bordeaux 125, 126
Boselly, Jacques 177, 178
Boston, Massachusetts 77
Botticelli, Sandro 286
Boughton, George Henry 271
Bourgeois, Stephan 103
Bournville, near Birmingham 252
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle 110
Boxer Rebellion (1900) 368
Boyle, Frederick 241, 248
Boyle, Henry 241
Bram Hertz collection 208–9, 237
Brescia 62
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of 30
Bridgewater collection 30, 31
Bristol 36
Bristol china 178
British Archaeological Association 196, 198, 200, 203, 205
British Empire 9, 17, 223, 315, 318, 324, 325, 328, 338
British Institution, Pall Mall, London 43
British Library 223
British Museum, London 42, 44, 45–46, 67, 75, 78, 196, 200, 238, 356, 372
British and Medieval Antiquities department 198
Bushell’s contributions 331
Charlotte Schreiber consults Franks 184
and Charlotte Schreiber’s playing cards 181
Christy Collection 326–27
Cole’s predatory attitude 149
collects artefacts of classical civilizations 237
Department of Antiquities 204
Duveen gallery 105, 150
Egyptian objects 218, 220, 221, 222
and the Faussett collection 204, 205
favours antiquities from abroad 197–98
forgeries issue 298, 299, 302–3, 305, 310
Franks’s contribution 93–96, 148–49
Indian material 339
and Japanese art 340
Magdala Treasure 223
Mayer in 217–18
overseas collections 326–29
refuses to buy from Fejérváry collection 206
rivalry with South Kensington 149
Roach Smith collection 201
Round Reading Room 204
and Walters 358
British Raj 338
Brown, William 237
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 257
Brussels, Belgium 173
Bryanston House, Dorset 271
Buchanan (art dealer) 292
Buckingham, 2nd Duke of 29
Builder, The 38
Building News 8
Bullock, William 218
Bunsen, Christian: Egypt’s Place in Universal History 221
Burke, Edmund: Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 23
Burlington Fine Arts Club (previously Fine Arts Club) 82, 120, 181, 357
Burlington Magazine 291
Burne-Jones, Edward 251
Burslem factory, Stoke-on-Trent 213
Burton, Captain Richard F. 315
Bushell, Dorothy 365
Bushell, Florence 324, 329, 341, 363, 365, 367, 368
Bushell, Stephen Wootton
and Bishop 361–62
and Chinese culture 322, 346–47, 349, 363
and Chinese portable family wealth 343–44
collecting interests 3, 323
as a dealer 363–65
deaths of his children 365–66
doctor to the British delegation in China 2–3, 319
donations to Victoria and Albert Museum 371
enjoys living in Peking 341, 342
enthusiasm for Chinese objects 321
financial problems 362–64
first scholarly article 323
first Westerner to make a serious study of Chinese art 323–24, 367
and Franks 323, 347–48
learns Chinese language 322
and magic Chinese mirrors 352–53
marries Florence 324, 329
personality 318, 349
retirement 266
and South Kensington Museum 340, 347, 348–49, 366–67, 376
study methods 344, 353–55
visits Inner Mongolia 324
and Walters 357, 358–59
Chinese Art 350–51, 367–68, 376
Oriental Ceramic Art 359–61
Buxton, Derbyshire 235
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 137
Caillot, Mme (dealer in Paris) 130
Callowhill, James 359–60
Cambridge 238
Camden, Lady 163
Cameron, Robert 33
Campana, Giampietro 78–79, 80, 148
Canaletto 62–63
Canford Manor, Dorset 137–38, 141–44
Cardiff 136
Carleton, Sir Dudley 309
Carlisle, Duke of 30
Cathedral of St John, Bois-le-Duc (’s-Hertogenbosch), Holland 291
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 235, 236
Cellini, Benvenuto 194
Chambers Journal 38, 45–46
ChangLing Tomb, Peking 354
Charles I, King 27–28, 104
Charles V, Emperor 27, 116, 226
Charles X, King of France 221
Chartist movement 17, 57, 139
Chatsworth, Derbyshire 235
Chelsea china 130–31, 166
Chesters, Northumberland 271
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London 257, 258, 260, 266, 273
Chicago 77
Chinese ceramics 267–70
chinoiserie 345
Christie’s auctioneers, London 32, 109, 110, 119, 142, 287, 364, 375–76
Christina, Queen of Sweden 27
Christy, Henry 326–27
Christy Collection 326–27
Cincinnati 77
Clark, Kenneth 295
Clarke, Joseph 200, 201, 207, 208–9, 239, 244
Cleveland House, St James’s, London 31
Colchester, Essex 36
Cole, Henry 3, 115, 311, 324
and 1862 International Exhibition 18, 19–20, 24
and abolition of Robinson’s art referee post 90
aims of 21, 245
Art Journal article attacks 89
and design reform 67, 68
education focus 68
‘False Principles in Design’ exhibition (‘Chamber of Horrors’; 1852) 67
first Director of South Kensington Museum 18, 19–20, 77, 78, 106
forgeries issue 298–99
and Great Exhibition 18, 19–20
personality 20
predatory attitude towards British Museum 149
relationship with Robinson 22, 68, 74, 80, 81, 85–93, 96, 111
and relocation from Marlborough House to South Kensington 69
reorganises government Schools of Design 20–21, 64
Robinson’s pay rises 71–72
and Soulages collection 231
on ’the taste for collecting’ 33
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: ‘Kubla Khan’ 324
Collins, Wilkie 73
The Woman in White 245
Connoisseur, The: A Collector’s Journal and Monthly Review 32, 245
Constable, Isabel 372
Constable, John 113, 372
Sketch of Hampstead Heath 103
Constantine, Grand Duke, of Russia 139
Cook, Sir Francis 103
Cook, Captain James 218, 335
Cook, Thomas 235
Cooke, E. W. 270, 271
Cooksey, Charles 292, 293
Cornforth, Fanny 260
Cornhill Magazine 24
Correggio, Antonio da 28
Cortes, Hernan 116
Cotman, J. S. 113
Couvreur, Monsieur (art dealer in Paris) 59
Covent Garden, London 247, 261
Cremation Society 277
Crimean War (1853–6) 230
Crivelli, Lucrezia 307
Cromwell, Oliver 226
Crowne, John: Darius, King of Persia 248
Cruikshank, George 264
Crystal Palace, London 8, 67, 83, 142, 160
Cunliffe-Owen, Lady 40
Cunliffe-Owen, Philip 106–10, 301, 327, 329, 348
Dacre Park, Merseyside 240
Daily Mail 293
Daily Telegraph 120, 299
Daniels, William 190–93, 205, 216
Dante Alighieri 63
Divine Comedy 225
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species 336–37
d’Athanasi, Giovanni 221
de Trafford, Sir Humphrey 232
Degas, Edgar 333
Delange, Monsieur (art dealer in Paris) 59
delftware 268, 269
Department of Practical Art (later Department of Science and Art) 21
Derby, 13th Earl of 238
Derby, 14th Earl of 218–19
Derby Arboretum 252
‘Devonshire Gems, The’ 11
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of 11, 235
Dickens, Charles 234, 264, 372
Little Dorrit 45, 73, 316–17
The Old Curiosity Shop 197, 265
Our Mutual Friend 73–74
Dijon 195
Dilke, Charles 175
Dilke, Emilia, Lady 175, 373
Art in the Modern State 175
The Renaissance of Art in France 175
Disraeli, Benjamin 134, 234
Dobson, Frank 251
Doge’s Palace, Venice 281
Dorio, Denys 172
Dorset County Museum 120
Douglas, James 202–3
Nenia Britannica 202, 203
Dowgate Hill brooch 201
Dowlais, South Wales 136, 138–39, 140, 144, 146, 177, 195
Downing Hall, Flintshire 241
Dresden 166
Driffield museum 199
Drolling, Michel Martin 52
Du Sommerard, Alexandre 59
Dublin Museum 110
Dudley Gallery Art Society, Piccadilly, London 58
Dürer, Albrecht 167
Durlacher Brothers 290, 291
Dutch East India Company 267, 332
Duveen, Henry 152
Duveen, James Henry 288
Duveen, Sir Joseph and Americans 288
Belle Ferronniere dispute 307, 308–9
‘Duveen Eye’ 279–80, 301, 309
funding of galleries 105, 150
knighted for his philanthropy 105
makes a fortune as a dealer 105, 150
personality 105
and Robinson 105
talent for salesmanship 105
Duveen, Joseph Joel 105, 262–63
apprenticed to a porcelain merchant in Hull 150–51, 263
‘Duveen Eye’ 279–80, 301
loans pieces from his showroom 262
redesigning of Wilson’s house 287–88
remarkets his business 265
rivalry with the Schreibers 147–48, 150, 152–53, 262
sets up a company 151
&
nbsp; and the thrill of competition 151
Duveen, Rosetta 151–52
Dyce, William 87, 257
Dyer, William 106
East End, London 44
East End, Sheffield 40
East India Company 17, 327, 339
Indian museum, Leadenhall Street, London 338–39
Eastlake, Sir Charles 13, 64, 82, 118, 148, 176
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris 52
Edie, Major William 237
Education Act (1870) 83
Edward, the Black Prince 304
Edward III, King 304
Edward VII, King (as Prince of Wales) 221
Egba people 334
Egerton, Sir Philip 236
Egyptian relics 219–27
‘Egyptian Temple’ (later Egyptian Hall), Piccadilly, London 218
Eitelberger, Rudolph 117
El Greco: Christ Driving Out the Moneylenders from the Temple 110
Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl of 355
Elgin, Lord 222, 355
Elgin Marbles 105, 197, 222, 355
ethnography 325
display of ethnographic objects 331–37
Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent 210, 213
Evans, John 199–200, 205
Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain 199
Ancient Stone Implements 199
Evans, Mister (art dealer in Paris) 59
Exeter 33–34, 36, 334
exhibition societies 58
Exposition Universelle (Paris 1867) 298
fans 179–80, 185
Faussett, Bryan 202
Faussett, Henry Godfrey 203, 204
Faussett collection 202, 203, 204–6, 244
Fejérváry collection 206, 227
Ferrara 62
Fildes, Luke 271
Fine Arts Club (later Burlington Fine Arts Club) 12, 13, 19, 71, 81, 82–84, 88–89, 97, 156, 181, 229, 232, 264, 276, 356
Fine Arts Society 106
First Afghan War (1839–42) 340
First Republic (France) 58
First World War 251, 312
Flaudin, Mme (dealer in Paris) 130, 131
Fleet Ditch 201
Flora affair 290–96, 304, 307, 311
Florence 62, 64, 76, 312
Fontana, Giovanni 242
forgery issue 290–312
Forster, John 372
Fort Nelson, near Portsmouth 250
Fortnum, Charles 356–57
Fournier (a dealer contact of Charlotte Schreiber) 179
Fournier, M. (dealer in Paris) 130, 179
Fowke, Captain Francis 7, 8
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré 288
‘Fragonard Room’ 288
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 125, 128, 166
Frankfurt 263
Franks, Augustus Wollaston 93–96, 148, 199, 223, 264, 280, 308, 332, 355
bookplate 216
British and Medieval Antiquities department 198
and Bushell 323, 347–48
and catalogue of Schreiber collection 184