a close friend of Charlotte Schreiber 163
collecting skills 180–81
donates from his own collection 94, 95, 98–99
expert on non-European works 326, 327
and Faussett collection 204
forgeries issue 301–3, 307
as founder of modern British Museum 93
and Japanese art 340
and Mayer 196
paid role at British Museum 98
personal collection 94
personality 93, 94
professionalism and scholarship 93
reshapes the collections 94–95
and Robinson 94, 95, 96, 107, 108, 148–49
a skilled politician 95
specially struck medallion 216
Fraser, Mary Crawford 322, 350
Frederick III, Emperor of Germany 103
Freizor, George (G.-A. Freezor) 217
French Industrial Exhibition (1844) 17
French Revolution 28, 37, 54, 56, 57, 166, 167
Freud, Sigmund 207, 246
Frick, Henry Clay 288
Gainsborough, Thomas 113, 230
Galton, Francis 337
Gard, Richard Sommers 34
Gaskell, Elizabeth 234, 257
Gauguin, Paul 333
Gedeonov, Stepan 79
Genoa 177, 178
Geological Society 100
George II, King 197
George III, King 43, 264
Gilbert, Sir W. S. and Sullivan, Sir Arthur: The Mikado 333
Girtin, Thomas 113
Gladstone, William Ewart 11, 83, 87, 102, 223, 234
Gladwell Brothers 105–6
Glasgow 47
Glen Aldred, Surrey 270, 271
Goadsby, Thomas 232
Gothic revival 52
Gouda 147, 165
Government of India Act (1858) 339
Government Select Committee on Arts and their connection with Manufactures 16, 35–36
Gower, Earl 30
Granada, Spain 127
Grand Tour 27, 62, 195, 281, 315, 316, 325
Grant, President Ulysses S. 33
Granville, Lord 86
Graphic, The 33
Great Exhibition (London, 1851) 7, 8, 15–19, 20, 46, 67, 83–84, 142–43, 160, 199, 217, 228, 235, 236, 300, 317, 332, 338, 345
Great Stupa, Sanchi, India 339
Great Wall of China 345
Grégoire, Abbé 54
Grey, Sir Edward 293
Grimm, Hermann 37
Grossmith, George 264
Grosvenor, Thomas 324
Grosvenor Gallery, Bond Street, London 43–44, 272, 273
Guanyin statue 237
Guest, Augustus 145
Guest, Ivor Bertie 137, 144
Guest, Sir Josiah John 134–39, 143–44, 145
Guest, Montague 154, 163, 171
Guy’s Hospital, London 318
Habsburgs 27, 63
Hague, The 147, 170
Hahn, Harry 307
Haliburton, Mrs (a china collector) 162, 163
Halifax 41
Hamburg 77
Hamilton, Duke of 11, 29, 82
Han dynasty (206 BCAD 24) 353
Hanley School of Design, Staffordshire 61, 64
Hanover, Germany 298
Hardy, Thomas: A Pair of Blue Eyes 317, 318
Harewood, Earl of 95
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 77, 346
Harris, John 227
Harrison, Peggy 242
Hart, Sir Robert 365
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 234
Heda, Willam Claesz 268
Helmback, Abraham 174
Henderson, John 82
Henry IV, King of France 226
Heppington, Kent 202, 244
Heriot, George 194
Hertz collection 237
Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 196
Hobson, Mrs, of Pitsmoor 40
Hogarth, William 230
Holburne, Sir Thomas William 377
Holburne Museum, Bath 377
Holmes, William Henry 317
Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, Duc de Berry 310
Hooton, Cheshire 250
Hope, Alexander Beresford 82
Horniman, Frederick John 377
Hôtel de Cluny, Paris 59–60
Hôtel de Ville, Paris 129
Hôtel Drouot, Paris 179
Huddersfield Mechanics’ Institute 34
Huish, Marcus 106
Hull, East Yorkshire 148, 150, 151, 263
Hunt, Leigh 345
Hunt, William Holman 23, 260
Huntington, Revd Robert 220
Illustrated London News 338
Imperial Hermitage, St Petersburg 79
Imperial Summer Palace, near Peking 354–55
Indian Rebellion (1857) 339
Industrial Revolution 207, 268
International Exhibition (Florence, 1861) 81
International Exhibition of Industry and Art (London, 1862) 7–11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 24
International Exhibition (Philadelphia, 1876) 327
jade 361, 362
James, Henry 246, 281
The Portrait of a Lady 246–47
Jameson, Anna
A Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London 176
Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London 176
Sacred and Legendary Art 176
Janin, Jules 167
Japanese art 332–33, 340
Jeckyll, Thomas 284, 285, 286
John Baillie’s Gallery, London 58
Jones, John 372
Josephine, Empress 226
Kaiser-Friedrich Museum (later Bode Museum), Berlin 32, 103, 117, 291
K’ang-hsi period (1662–1722) 267, 312, 364
Kant, Immanuel 325
Keats, John 230
Keiser, Aelbrecht de 172
Kelmscott Manor 267
Kesslerloch, Switzerland 302
Kipling, Rudyard 316
Klenze, Leo von 238
Knowsley, Merseyside 219
Koh-i-Noor diamond 160
Kryser’s showroom, Rotterdam 169, 170
Kublai Khan 324
Kunz, George Frederick 283
Lady at a Harpsichord, A 104
Lamb, Lady Caroline 137
Lamb, Charles: ‘Old China’ 159
Landseer, Sir Edwin 113
Langham House, Portland Place, London 154, 374
Layard, Austen Henry 99, 141, 142, 197–98, 222, 223
Leeds 36, 47
Mechanics’ Institute 34
Lehmann, Henri 52
Leighton, Frederick 251
Leonardo da Vinci 307
and Flora affair 290–95
Mona Lisa 53, 54, 290
Leopold I, King of Belgium 277
Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke, of Austria 27
Lepsius, Karl Richard 220, 221
Levant Company 220
Leyland, Frederick Richards 284–88
Liberty’s store, Regent Street, London 333, 345
Lindenschmidt, Ludwig 302
Lindsay, Sir Coutts 44
Lindsey, Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of 133
Literary and Philosophical Societies 34, 35
Liverpool 36, 47, 189, 190, 193, 205, 208, 214, 218–19, 226, 238, 239, 249, 285
Natural History Museum (Duke Street) 218–19
Liverpool Academy of Art 190
Liverpool Town Council 237, 253
Liverpool volunteer borough guard 249
Liverpool Museum 239, 243, 253, 371, 375
Livingstone, David 315, 316
Lockhart, Sir James Stewart 363
Lombardi-Baldi collection 64
Londesborough, Lord 198
London Review, The 46
London School of Design 84, 87
Louis XIII, King of France 166, 226
Louis XIV, King of France 27, 54
Louis d’Orléans, Duke
of Orléans 28
Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans 28
Louvre, Paris 37, 53–56, 58, 59, 60, 117, 307
Lowe, Lord 86, 87–88
Lucas, George 282
Lucas, Richard Cockle 292–93, 295
Ludwig I, King of Hungary and Poland 309
Lyceum club, Liverpool 196
Lyme Regis, Dorset 155
Mabinogion, The 140–41
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron: History of England 157
Magazine of Art 36–37
Magdala Treasure 222–23
Malcolm, John, 14th Laird of Poltalloch 103
Manchester 235, 238
free libraries 38
Mechanics’ Institute 34–35, 47
Manchester Cricket Club 230
Manchester Guardian 34
Manchester Ship Canal 232
Marks, Emanuel 263, 265–66, 271, 279
Marks, Murray 275–89, 371
American clients 281, 282, 283
and blue-and-white ceramics 269
business card 273–74, 276
childhood and education 263
collecting interests 2
collections 291, 375–76
connections in Holland 2
dealer and collector 2
Flora affair 290–96, 304
forgeries issue 304–5, 307, 309–12
fruitful alliance with South Kensington 311–12
and the Peacock Room 284, 286, 287
personality 259–60, 262, 264, 276
and Pre-Raphaelites 2
reinvents character of the art dealer 265, 279
reliquary cross issue 309–10
and Rossetti 257–61, 262, 263
showrooms 266, 267, 270–73, 275, 276
Marks van Galen 269
Marlborough, 1st Duke of 66
Marlborough, 8th Duke of 29
Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London 18, 66–67, 69–72, 82, 91, 120, 231
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of 66
Marochetti, Baron Carlo 82
Married Women’s Property Act (1870) 160
Marryat, Captain Frederick 327
Marryat, Joseph 162
Mary II, Queen 157
Mary Queen of Scots 11
Mayer, Jane 241
Mayer, Joseph 280
acquires Egyptian objects 221
appreciates scholarship 224
Art Treasures Exhibition a triumph for him 236, 237
Bram Hertz collection 208–9
and Charlotte Schreiber 196
collecting interests 2, 192–93, 199, 225, 226, 247–48
death 374
Egyptian objects 222, 224–25, 375
and Faussett collection 204–6
flourishing workshop 194
forgeries in his collection 298
funding 207–8
invests in a public library 251–53
involvement in Bebington 249–53
a Liverpool jeweller 2, 189, 208, 217
love life 241–44
his museum in Liverpool 217–27, 237, 238, 239, 241, 247, 253
personality 200
portraits 189–93, 205, 216, 217, 227
purchases existing collections wholesale 206–7
and Roach Smith 202, 224, 238
start of his interest in collecting 195
in the volunteer movement 249–51
and Wedgwood 210–15
‘History of the art of pottery in Liverpool’ 248
Mayer, Joseph and Boyle, Frederick
Early Exhibitions of Art in Liverpool: With some Notes for a Memoir of George Stubbs, R.A. 248
Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott and George Stubbs R.A. 248
Mayer Collection 238–39
Mayer Hall, Bebington 374
Mayer Library 374
Mayer Trust 374
Mechanics’ Institutes 34–35, 46
Meissen works 166
Meredith, George 246, 260
The Egoist 247
Merlin 140
Merthyr Tydfil 135, 139
Meteyard, Elizabeth 243
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 77, 305
Mexican quartz crystal skull forgeries 297–98
Michelangelo 53, 103
David 70
‘Manchester Madonna’ 228
Milan 62
Milan, Duke of 307
Millais, John Everett 245, 251, 260, 262
Christ in the House of His Parents 245
Ming dynasty 342
Monet, Claude 333
Monte di Pièta 78–79
Morelli, Giovanni 308
Morgan, J.P. 288
Morris, William 251, 267, 273
Mortimer, John 199
Mortlocks (London dealers) 163
Mosses, Alexander 190
Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore 358
Munich 180
Musée Central des Arts, Paris 54
see also Louvre
Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin 326
Museums Acts 36, 41
Nagasaki, Japan 332, 340
Napier, Robert 103
Napoleon I, Emperor 55, 63, 220, 222, 226
Napoleon III, Emperor 78, 79, 250
Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815) 57, 166
Nash, Paul 251
National Art Collections Fund 120
National Art Training School 107
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London 42, 44, 56, 57, 64, 75, 78, 82, 87, 100, 107, 110, 118, 233, 262, 268, 281
National Portrait Gallery, London 234
Natural History Museum, London 7
Negroni, Captain de 355
neo-classical style 237, 238
Neville, Dorothy 163
New Hermitage, St Petersburg 238
New York 361, 362
New York Herald 77
New York Times 293, 294–95
New York World 307
Newbold, Mary 40
Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 35
Newcastle-under-Lyme 249
Newton Manor, near Swanage, Dorset 100–102, 104, 110, 119, 197, 376
Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia (later Iraq) 142
North Eastern Railway Company 40
Northcote, Sir Stafford 33–34
Northumberland, 3rd Duke of 198–99
Northumberland, 4th Duke of 198–99
Norwich 238
Nottingham 47, 51, 52, 61
Nottingham Museum 36–37, 38, 41
Nottingham School of Art 61
Nuremberg Hausmaler 174
‘Octave’ dinners 277
Ogubonna, Chief 334
‘Old Japan’ porcelain 332
‘Old Nankin Porcelain’ 364
Old Trafford, Manchester 228, 230
Oppenheim, Mme (dealer in Paris) 130
Oriental Bank 362–63
Orléans Collection 27–28, 30
Osborne House, Isle of Wight 104
Oudh, Nawab of 139
Overstone, Lord 82, 232
Owen, Mary 190
Owen, Robert 38
Owen, Wilfred 251
Padua 62
Palace of Westminster, London 137
Palais de Tuileries, Paris 129
Palais Royal, Paris 28
Palissy, Bernard 300
Palmerston, Viscount 232, 234
Panizzi, Antonio 149, 280
Paris
at the heart of the collectors’ circuit 167
Robinson in 52–56, 58–62, 166
the Schreibers in (1871) 128–30
Paris Commune 125, 129, 168, 179
Paris Exhibition (1855) 8, 17–18, 235
Parkes, Sir Harry 340
Parmiggiani, Luigi (Louis Marcy) 303–4
Parry, William 336
Pater, Walter 24
Pattison, Mark 175
Paxton, Joseph 142
Peacock Room, London 284–87, 288
Peel, Sir Ro
bert 44, 138
Pegus, Reverend Peter 133, 135, 145
Peking (now Beijing) 319–23, 329, 330, 341, 342, 346, 349, 350, 352, 354, 358, 362, 365, 368
Pennant, Thomas 240–41
Journey from Chester to London 241
A Tour of Scotland 241
Pennant House, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside 240–43, 247, 249, 252, 253, 374
Perry, Commodore 332–33
Philadelphia 77
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool 205
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans 27, 28
Phillips, Henry Wyndham 251
Photographic Salon 58
Piccadilly Hotel, London 271
Pickford & Co. 263, 270
Pierpont Morgan, J. 282–83, 288, 290
Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry 335
Pitt Rivers collection 335, 377
Pitti Palace, Florence 111
playing cards 180, 181–82, 185, 299
Polo, Marco 324
Polonet (Brussels dealer) 173–74
Pompeii 199
Ponsonby, William 137
Poona figures 317
Poynter, Edward J. 107–8
Prado, Madrid 57, 238
Prague Castle 27
Prang, Louis 359
Pre-Raphaelites 2, 228, 230, 245, 260, 261, 264, 266, 286, 375
Preston 36, 238
Prudhoe, Lord (later Duke of Northumberland) 198
Public Libraries and Museums Act (1850) 36
Public Record Office 20
Pughe, William Owen 140
Pugin, Augustus 137
Pull, Georges 300–301, 304
Pulszky, Franz 206
Punch Almanack 245
Punch magazine 32–33, 160, 161, 245, 264
Pune, India 317
Purdon Clarke, Caspar 115–16, 116
Putuo island 237
Pyramids, the 221
Quarterly Review 13, 78
Queen Anne style 271
Raffles, Sir Stamford 327
Rainbow Landscape 104
Rameses II, Pharaoh 221
Raphael 53, 103, 230
Madonna degli Ansedei 30
Read, Charles Hercules 264
Redgrave, Richard 88
Reform Act (1867) 38, 82
Rejlander, Oscar Gustave: The Two Ways of Life 230
Rembrandt van Rijn 167, 230
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 333
Representation of the People Act (Reform Act; 1832) 38
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 43
A Portrait of a Child with Doll 103
Rice, Eleanor Elkins Widener 288
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 57
Roach Smith, Charles and Bram Hertz collection 209
and Faussett collection 205, 206
London collection 200–201
and Mayer 202, 224, 238
Robinson, Sir John Charles 195, 200, 223, 231, 262, 308, 324, 371
aims to foster aesthetic appreciation 68
ambition 51, 105, 111
appearance 51, 53
background and childhood 51
career as a dealer 99–111, 121, 141
on Chinese ceramic art 326
clients 102–3, 104
collecting skills 71–72, 91, 102, 107–8, 112, 180–81
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