Art treasures of the United Kingdom and the United States: the George Scharf papers

• Autores: Philip Cottrell
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 94, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 618-640
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The papers of the nineteenth-century connoisseur George Scharf preserved at the National Portrait Gallery, London, represent a remarkable repository of unpublished data relevant to hundreds of old master paintings. Scharf discovered many of them during an ambitious trawl of Great Britain, seeking works for the celebrated Art Treasures exhibition of 1857 held in Manchester. These included a group of paintings in international collections once owned by the dealer John Watkins Brett and the industrialist Abraham Darby IV, which toured the United States in the 1830s. These are relevant to efforts to found the first American national gallery.