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Businesses (2)
- Hollis & Webb, surveyors, auctioneers and estate agents Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, art dealers Manchester, Lancashire;London
Organisations (3)
- Friends of the Courtauld Institute London
- National Gallery
- Reform Club London
Persons (33)
- Angerstein, John Julius, (1735-1823), businessman and art collector
- Boxall, Sir William, (1800-1879), Knight Portrait Painter, Director of National Gallery
- Burton, Sir Frederic William, (1816-1900), Knight Director of the National Gallery
- Cuchetet, Charles, (fl 1831-1835), commissaire general of the Duccesse de Berry's household
- Davies, Sir Martin, (1908-1975), Director of the National Gallery
- Deverell, Walter Riding, (1800-1853), secretary of Government School of Design
- Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock, (1793-1865), Knight, painter
- Eastlake, Elizabeth, (1809-1893), reviewer and author
- Ford, Richard, (1796-1858), travel writer and art connoisseur
- Gregory, Sir William Henry, (1817-1892), Knight, MP and Governor of Ceylon
- Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, (1834-1894), Artist and Essayist
- Haskell, Francis James Herbert, (1928-2000), professor of art history
- Hendy, Sir Philip Anstiss, (1900-1980), Knight Director of the National Gallery
- Heseltine, John Postle, (1843-1929), Trustee of the National Gallery
- Kay, Harold Isherwood, (1893-1938), Keeper of the National Gallery
- Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry, (1802-1873), Knight, Knight Painter
- Laurence, Harwood C, (1869-1949), stockbroker and art collector
- Layard, Sir Austen Henry, (1817-1894), Knight, politician, diplomat and archaeologist
- Levey, Michael Vincent, (1927-2008), Knight, art historian and former Director of the National Gallery
- MacLaren, Neil, (1909-1988), Assistant Keeper at the National Gallery
- Maitland, William Fuller, (1813-1876), art collector
- Penny, Sir Nicholas, (b 1949), Knight, gallery director and art historian
- Ruhemann, Helmut, (1891-1973), conservator and picture restorer
- Salting, George, (1835-1909), art collector
- Scott, William Bell, (1811-1890), poet and painter
- Vertue, George, (1684-1756), Engraver and Antiquary
- Waterhouse, Sir Ellis Kirkham, (1905-1985), Knight, art historian and gallery director
- Wegg, William Henry Jervis, (1876-1940), author and barrister
- Weitzner, Julius, (1895-1986), art dealer
- Wengraf, Alexander, (c1929-1985), art dealer
- Wengraf, Fritz , (1895-1965), art dealer
- Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke, (1816-1869), Historian Royal Librarian
- Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, (1812-1877), Art Critic, Biographer and Keeper of the National Gallery
Diaries (1)
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (8)
- NRA 43407 Sir William Boxall, director of the National Gallery: papers
- NRA 43408 Sir Martin Davies, director of the National Gallery: papers link to scanned list
- NRA 43411 Sir William Henry Gregory, governor of Ceylon: corresp with Sir Frederick Burton
- NRA 43406 Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy, director of the National Gallery: corresp and papers
- NRA 43409 Harold Isherwood Kay, keeper of the National Gallery: papers link to scanned list
- NRA 23846 National Gallery
- NRA 43410 National Gallery: collected photographs rel to gallery activities
- NRA 43405 Ralph Nicholson Wornum, art critic and keeper of the National Gallery: corresp and papers
Accessions
These are selected lists of new or additional collections that were acquired by this archive during a specific year. If a date is not displayed there are no accessions for that year.