YOUTUBE WALLACE COLLECTION VLOG NOW LIVE!

  My YouTube Wallace Collection vlog is now live!

Link:-

https://youtu.be/9GTx5a93hfI

The Wallace Collection sits in the former townhouse of of the Seymour family; Marquesses of Hertford. It was established in 1897 from the private collection created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800-1870). He left both the collection and the house to his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), and his widow then bequeathed the entire collection to the nation.

It is a very important collection of French 18th century decorative arts- many of them purchased after the end of the French Revolution in revolutionary sales (the selling of property confiscated from the monarchy, the Catholic Church and suspected counter-revolutionaries.) The museum contains around 5,500 objects, and opened to the public in 1900. It does not try and replicate the house to its state when Sir Richard and Lady Wallace lived there.

I've been here a few times before (including to an ab fab Manolo Blahnik exhibition!) and entrance is free. Come and take a walk in my shoes (yes, I do own a pair of Manolos!) and I'll show you opulent room after room of paintings, sculptures, ceramics and armoury. I do think the sumptuous furnishings and the architecture are as important as what's housed inside.

Remember, I will always be a writer before anything else, and have blogged about the Wallace Collection before, during the aforementioned Manolo Blahnik exhibition- perfect for a shoe fetishist such as myself!

Link:- 

https://elainerockett.blogspot.com/2019/07/miss-elaineous-visits-manolo-blahnik-at.html

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