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ISBN: 9780522855524
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2008
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
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"Alfred Felton, a bachelor of definite opinions and benignly eccentric habits, was one of the remarkable group of Melbourne merchants who dominated the economy of the Australian colonies in the decades after the gold rush. In 1904 he left his substantial fortune in trust, the income to be spent by a committee of his friends, half on charities (especially for women and children), and half on works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria, works calculated to raise and improve public taste . The Gallery suddenly gained acquisition funds greater than those of London s National and Tate galleries combined, and between 1904 and 2004 more than 15 000 items were purchased for it by the Felton Bequest.
Although the last quarter of the twentieth century saw a dramatic and exciting expansion of Australian art museums , Patrick McCaughey writes in the foreword of this book, no institution could hope to replicate the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria assembled under the aegis of the Felton Bequest.
How the Felton Bequests Committee carried out its tasks, in cooperation and sometimes in conflict with the Trustees of the Gallery, is a human story of many tr
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ISBN: 9780522855524
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2008
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Description:
"Alfred Felton, a bachelor of definite opinions and benignly eccentric habits, was one of the remarkable group of Melbourne merchants who dominated the economy of the Australian colonies in the decades after the gold rush. In 1904 he left his substantial fortune in trust, the income to be spent by a committee of his friends, half on charities (especially for women and children), and half on works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria, works calculated to raise and improve public taste . The Gallery suddenly gained acquisition funds greater than those of London s National and Tate galleries combined, and between 1904 and 2004 more than 15 000 items were purchased for it by the Felton Bequest.
Although the last quarter of the twentieth century saw a dramatic and exciting expansion of Australian art museums , Patrick McCaughey writes in the foreword of this book, no institution could hope to replicate the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria assembled under the aegis of the Felton Bequest.
How the Felton Bequests Committee carried out its tasks, in cooperation and sometimes in conflict with the Trustees of the Gallery, is a human story of many tr
This product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item. Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.
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