{"id":6367,"date":"2018-10-05T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:33:33","slug":"wallace-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wallace-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wallace-collection\/african-woman-wallace-collection-london-october-2018\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6368\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6368\" src=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/African-Woman-Wallace-Collection-London-October-2018-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/African-Woman-Wallace-Collection-London-October-2018-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/African-Woman-Wallace-Collection-London-October-2018.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>In my rambling around London on Wednesday I stumbled on the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, Manchester Square.\u00a0 It\u2019s a collection of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries; and part of the rich collection of the works of the <em>ancien r\u00e9gime <\/em>in the UK, acquired by wealthy families during the revolutionary sales, held after the end of the French Revolution.\u00a0 Established originally by Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870), it was left to the nation by his is illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818\u20131890).\u00a0 Wallace achieved fame during the Siege of Paris for his charitable work \u2013 he is estimated to have privately contributed 2.5 million (1870) francs to the needy of Paris.\u00a0 The collection is characterised by gaudy opulence.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bust of African Woman, Italian c. 1650, Wallace Collection, October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my rambling around London on Wednesday I stumbled on the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, Manchester Square.\u00a0 It\u2019s a collection of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries; and part of the rich collection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wallace-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-1EH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}