Agnew's and the National Gallery, 1874-1916

The spatial aspects of connoisseurship: Agnew’s and the National Gallery, 1874-1916

Volume II: Figures and Appendix

Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements of the University of Liverpool for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy by Alison Victoria Clarke

School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures, University of Liverpool December 2017

Contents

Contents ...... 2 List of figures ...... 5 Figures ...... 11 Figure 1 ...... 11 Figure 2 ...... 12 Figure 3 ...... 13 Figure 4 ...... 14 Figure 5 ...... 15 Figure 6 ...... 16 Figure 7 ...... 17 Figure 8 ...... 18 Figure 9 ...... 19 Figure 10 ...... 20 Figure 11 ...... 21 Figure 12 ...... 22 Figure 13 ...... 23 Figure 14 ...... 24 Figure 15 ...... 25 Figure 16 ...... 26 Figure 17 ...... 27 Figure 18 ...... 28 Figure 19 ...... 29 Figure 20 ...... 30 Figure 21 ...... 31 Figure 22 ...... 32 Figure 23 ...... 33 Figure 24 ...... 34 Figure 25 ...... 35 Figure 26 ...... 36 Figure 27 ...... 37 Figure 28 ...... 38 Figure 29 ...... 39 Figure 30 ...... 40 Figure 31 ...... 41 Figure 32 ...... 42

Figure 33 ...... 43 Figure 34 ...... 44 Figure 35 ...... 45 Figure 36 ...... 46 Figure 37 ...... 47 Figure 38 ...... 48 Figure 39 ...... 49 Figure 40 ...... 50 Figure 41 ...... 51 Figure 42 ...... 52 Figure 43 ...... 53 Figure 44 ...... 54 Figure 45 ...... 55 Figure 46 ...... 56 Figure 47 ...... 57 Figure 48 ...... 58 Figure 49 ...... 59 Figure 50 ...... 60 Figure 51 ...... 61 Figure 52 ...... 62 Figure 53 ...... 63 Figure 54 ...... 64 Figure 55 ...... 65 Figure 56 ...... 66 Figure 57 ...... 67 Figure 58 ...... 68 Figure 59 ...... 69 Figure 60 ...... 70 Figure 61 ...... 71 Figure 62 ...... 72 Figure 63 ...... 73 Figure 64 ...... 74 Figure 65 ...... 75 Figure 66 ...... 76 Figure 67 ...... 77 Figure 68 ...... 78 Figure 69 ...... 79 Appendix 1: National Gallery plans ...... 80

Key ...... 80 National Gallery plan: 1836 ...... 81 National Gallery plan: 1869 ...... 82 National Gallery plan: 1877 ...... 83 National Gallery plan: 1883 ...... 84 National Gallery plan: 1887 ...... 85 National Gallery plan: 1890; 1894...... 86 National Gallery plan: 1901 ...... 87 National Gallery plan: 1907 ...... 88 National Gallery plan: 1913 ...... 89 National Gallery plan: 1913 (index)...... 90

List of figures

Figure 1 Photograph of the Workshop, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 2 Register of pictures offered for sale to the National Gallery, London, 1878-1894. NG, NG9/1

Figure 3 ‘National Gallery: West Wing. Plan of ground floor and gallery floor (number 2). Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet. [By] Office of Works’. (detail), 9 August 1910. TNA, WORK 33/1860

Figure 4 E. Salomons, Ground and first plan for Agnew’s building, corner of Dale Street and Castle Street, Liverpool., 16 Mar 1877. NG, NGA27/28/4

Figure 5 Lease from The Exchange Street Property Co. Ltd. to Thos. Agnew & Sons, 10 Jun 1898. NG, NGA27/20/3/6

Figure 6 Photograph of the Office, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 7 Photograph of the Boardroom, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 8 The Long Gallery at Doughty House, c.1905. Photograph from an album in the collection of Brenda, Lady Cook, Jersey, CI. Copy photos by Robin Briault. National Gallery of Art, Washington, GBR Ar -- DPA 0200300024

Figure 9 “Doughty House,” Richmond Hill, Surrey: New Gallery for Sir Frederick Cook, Bart, illustration from The Builder, 8 October 1915, between pp. 272-273

Figure 10 The Octagon Room at Doughty House, c.1905. Photograph from an album in the collection of Brenda, Lady Cook, Jersey, CI. Copy photos by Robin Briault. National Gallery of Art, Washington, GBR Ar -- DPA 0200300028

Figure 11 Plan of Shobdon Court, Plate 34 in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Vol. 3, North West (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934), pp. 179- 182. British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/pp179-182 [accessed 16 June 2017]

Figure 12 South-East Corner of the Hall, photograph from ‘Country Homes & Gardens: Old & New: Shobdon Court, Herefordshire’, Country Life, 10 November 1906, p. 674

Figure 13 The Staircase – 8 King Street. 1893-1941. Undated photograph © Christie’s

Figure 14 The Ante Room 1931 pre 1941 WWII damage. Ante Room dressed with some of the Henry Hirsch Collection of porcelain and furniture. His small collection of fine pictures decorated his house at 23 Park Lane, W1. 10, 11, 12 June 1931. Undated photograph © Christie’s

Figure 15 A Viewing at Christie’s. Pictures from the collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford removed from Dorchester House, Park Lane and Westonbirt in Gloucestershire. 17, 18 May 1928. Undated photograph © Christie’s

Figure 16 Exhibition of Spanish Art under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain: The New Gallery, Regent Street, 1895-1896 [exhibition catalogue], pp. 14; 22; 24 (details), pencil annotations by C. M. Agnew. NG, NGA27/21/1

Figure 17 V.-A. Bruckmann, photograph (1899) of Vermeer, The Geographer, 1668–1669. APL

Figure 18 Letter from Keeper H. Harison Turner, c.1898-1914. NG, Dossier NG2903

Figure 19 Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Painters: Foreign Schools, 74th ed. (London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1889), p. 5 (detail)

Figure 20 Pictures and Drawings forming the Collection of Daniel Thwaites, Esq., Addison Lodge, Kensington (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1888), n.p. Private collection

Figure 21 Frame stock book, with library additions, furniture and repairs, 1896-1988, NG, NGA27/1/4/6, p. 105

Figure 22 The New National Gallery, drawing c.1876. NG, NG30/1876/1, neg. M1449. Copy photograph: London Metropolitan Archives, neg. 84/880

Figure 23 The New Rooms in the National Gallery, illustration from The Illustrated London News, 18 November 1876, p.484. NG, NG30/1876/2

Figure 24 The New West Gallery, Room XXV [now Room 9], photograph from The Architectural Review, Vol XXIX, April 1911, p. 227

Figure 25 View of the New Room at the National Gallery, illustration from The Building News, 19 July 1861, p. 605

Figure 26 Current Room 35 at the National Gallery (room XVI on opening in 1876), looking into Room 36 (the Octagon Hall/Dome). Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 27 G. Gabrielli, Room 32 in the National Gallery, London, oil on canvas, 1886. Government Art Collection (on loan to NG)

Figure 28 Current Room 34 at the National Gallery (room XII on opening in 1876). Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 29 National Gallery Trafalgar Square: Details of Roof to Central Gallery, illustration from The Building News, 29 April 1887, between pp. 662-663. NG, NG30/1887/1

Figure 30 The modern ceiling of the Central Hall at the National Gallery, showing the monitor skylights. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 31 J. D. Crace, Original Proposal for the Decoration of the Entrance Staircase to the National Gallery, watercolour on paper, c.1887. NG, H8

Figure 32 Photograph of the Entrance Hall at the National Gallery, taken from the North Vestibule, with dome ahead and skylight above. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 33 Photograph of the Entrance Hall at the National Gallery, taken from the West Vestibule, with dome overhead. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 34 E.M.B. Warren, View of the Entrance Hall, National Gallery, London, watercolour, 1896. NG30/1896/1

Figure 35 Detail of domed ceiling over centre gallery (Room XXVII) [now Room 11], photograph from The Architectural Review, April 1911, p. 228.

Figure 36 Title illustration from, S. Colvin, ‘The Longford Castle Pictures at the National Gallery’, The Art Journal, January 1891, p. 1

Figure 37 Photograph from ‘The Panshanger Vandycks’, The Daily Graphic, 27 February 1909

Figure 38 Bedford Lemere & Co., National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London: The entrance hall, photograph, 1888. RIBA7540, RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Figure 39 Illustration from ‘“Right Be’ind for ‘The Mill’”: Looking at the £100,000 Picture’, The Illustrated London News, 25 March 1911

Figure 40 E. R. Taylor, ‘Twas a famous victory, oil on canvas, 1883. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Figure 41 Office of Works, National Gallery. Proposed glazed screens round walls: elevation of north wall and south wall, gallery 14, watercolour, 29 May 1914. TNA, WORK 33/1918

Figure 42 Photograph of Agnew’s 1907 annual watercolour exhibition at 39 Old Bond Street. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 43 Exhibition of Twenty Pictures by Masters of the Early English School on behalf of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary [exhibition catalogue] (Liverpool: Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., 1902). National Art Library, Catalogues Collection, 77.L Box

Figure 44 Advertisement for Thos. Agnew & Sons (back cover, detail) from. H. Blackburn, Grosvenor Notes 1878: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1878)

Figure 45 Messrs. Agnew & Sons’ New Premises, illustration from The Building News, 19 October 1877, pp. 386-387. NG, NGA27/28/3

Figure 46 The Exchange Art Galleries, Liverpool. For Messrs. Thomas Agnew & Sons. Salomons, Wornum, & Ely, Architects, London and Manchester, illustration from The British Architect and Northern Engineer, 20 September 1878, between pp. 116-117. NG, NGA27/28/2

Figure 47 R. Oldham, New Premises, Exchange St Manchester, drawing, 1897. NG, uncatalogued

Figure 48 Liverpool, Dale Street, 1895, photograph looking east from the corner with Castle Street. The Agnew’s building is to the extreme left of the image, with a picture visible in the window. Permission to reproduce given by and © The Francis Frith Collection, neg. 36653

Figure 49 The Fine Arts Repository of Messrs. Agnew and Sons, Manchester, illustration from G. Measom, The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway, Including the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and Midland Railways, with Descriptions of the Most

Important Manufactories in the Large Towns on the Lines (London: Griffin, Bohn & Co, [1861]), p. 408. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 50 Messrs. Harding Howell & Co. 89 Pall Mall, hand-coloured aquatint from R. Ackermann, A Complete Set of Hand-Coloured Aquatint Views of London from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politic (London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1809), Plate 12. Reproduced with the kind permission of SPL Rare Books

Figure 51 Interior of The Exchange Art Galleries, Liverpool, photograph from ‘Autumn Exhibitions’. The Art Journal, December 1902, p. 388

Figure 52 E. Salomons, pen-and-ink drawing [?] of William Agnew in the main ground-floor room of Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, c.1877. NG, NGA27/33/4/5

Figure 53 Photograph of wallpaper in Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition gallery (detail), 1908. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 54 Bedford Lemere & Co., The south drawing room (Lord Braybrooke’s room) at Audley End, Essex, photograph, 1891. RIBA7526, RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Figure 55 Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, Limited, 160 New Bond Street, advertisement from M. B. Huish, The Year’s Art 1889 (London: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1889), p. 9

Figure 56 The Central Hall, illustration from H. Blackburn, New Gallery Notes. 1888. An Illustrated Catalogue with Facsimiles of Sketches by the Artists (London: Chatto & Windus, 1888), p. 2

Figure 57 Lease from The Exchange Street Property Co. Ltd. to Thos. Agnew & Sons for Nos 12 and 16 Exchange Street, Manchester, (detail, ground floor), 10 June 1898. NG, NGA27/20/3/6

Figure 58 Photograph of one of the ground-floor skylights at retailer Etro, 43 Old Bond Street, June 2016. Author’s photograph

Figure 59 List of callers to Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 7 January 1907. Letterbook 4 1906- 1909, (detail), NG, NGA27/11/4, p. 35

Figure 60 Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Twenty Masterpieces of the English School’, winter 1899. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 61 Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Twenty Masterpieces of the English School’, winter 1899. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 62 Twenty selected pictures by Italian masters: on exhibition at the galleries of Thos. Agnew & Sons… [exhibition catalogue] (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1899), title page; p. 9. National Art Library, Catalogues Collection, Agnew & Sons' Galleries. Catalogues. 1890-1899. (17-24)

Figure 63 Plan of the 1895 Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, from Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School [exhibition catalogue] (London: Wm. Clowes & Sons, 1895), contents page (detail)

Figure 64 Sketches at the Water Colour Exhibition now Open at Messrs. Agnew’s Galleries, illustration from ‘Messrs. Agnew’s Galleries’, The Daily Graphic, 14 February 1891. NG, NGA27/22/2/1

Figure 65 Zanetti’s Gallery, Manchester, aquatint, unknown artist and date. NG, NGA27/18/5

Figure 66 P. A. Martini after H. Ramberg, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787, etching, 1787. © Victoria and Albert Museum, mus. no. 27807

Figure 67 H. Jamyn Brooks, Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888, oil on canvas, 1889. © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1833

Figure 68 Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Annual exhibition on behalf of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution’, 1907. NG, NGA27/21/1

Figure 69 Photograph of the first-floor skylight at retailer Etro, 43 Old Bond Street, June 2016. Author’s photograph

Figures Figure 1

Photograph of the Workshop, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 2

Figure 3

‘National Gallery: West Wing. Plan of ground floor and gallery floor (number 2). Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet. [By] Office of Works’ (detail), 9 August 1910. TNA, WORK 33/1860. The red square has been added to indicate the possible historic location of the Director’s Office

Figure 4

E. Salomons, Ground and first plan for Agnew’s building, corner of Dale Street and Castle Street, Liverpool., 16 Mar 1877. NG, NGA27/28/4

Figure 5

Lease from The Exchange Street Property Co. Ltd. to Thos. Agnew & Sons, 10 Jun 1898. NG, NGA27/20/3/6

Figure 6

Photograph of the Office, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 7

Photograph of the Boardroom, Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 1937 NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 8

The Long Gallery at Doughty House, c.1905. Photograph from an album in the collection of Brenda, Lady Cook, Jersey, CI. Copy photos by Robin Briault. National Gallery of Art, Washington, GBR Ar -- DPA 0200300024

Figure 9

“Doughty House,” Richmond Hill, Surrey: New Gallery for Sir Frederick Cook, Bart. Illustration from The Builder, 8 October 1915, between pp. 272-273

Figure 10

The Octagon Room at Doughty House, c.1905 Photograph from an album in the collection of Brenda, Lady Cook, Jersey, CI. Copy photos by Robin Briault. National Gallery of Art, Washington, GBR Ar -- DPA 0200300028

Figure 11

Plan of Shobdon Court, Plate 34 in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Vol. 3, North West (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934), pp. 179- 182. British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/pp179-182 [accessed 16 June 2017]

Figure 12

South-East Corner of the Hall, ‘Country Homes & Gardens: Old & New: Shobdon Court, Herefordshire’, Country Life, 10 November 1906, p. 674

Figure 13

The Staircase – 8 King Street. 1893-1941. Undated photograph, © Christie’s

Figure 14

The Ante Room 1931 pre 1941 WWII damage. Ante Room dressed with some of the Henry Hirsch Collection of porcelain and furniture. His small collection of fine pictures decorated his house at 23 Park Lane, W1. 10, 11, 12 June 1931. Undated photograph, © Christie’s

Figure 15

A Viewing at Christie’s. Pictures from the collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford removed from Dorchester House, Park Lane and Westonbirt in Gloucestershire. 17, 18 May 1928. Undated photograph, © Christie’s

Figure 16

Exhibition of Spanish Art under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain: The New Gallery, Regent Street, 1895-1896 [exhibition catalogue], pp. 14; 22; 24 (details), pencil annotations by C. M. Agnew. NG, NGA27/21/1

Figure 17

V.-A. Bruckmann, photograph (1899) of Vermeer, The Geographer, 1668–1669. APL

Figure 18

Letter from Keeper H. Harison Turner, c.1898-1914. NG, Dossier NG2903.

Figure 19

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Painters: Foreign Schools, 74th ed. (London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1889), p. 5 (detail)

Figure 20

Pictures and Drawings forming the Collection of Daniel Thwaites, Esq., Addison Lodge, Kensington (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1888), n.p. Private collection

Figure 21

Frame stock book, with library additions, furniture and repairs, 1896-1988, NG, NGA27/1/4/6, p. 105

Figure 22

The New National Gallery, drawing c.1876. NG, NG30/1876/1, neg. M1449. Copy photograph: London Metropolitan Archives, neg. 84/880.

Figure 23

The New Rooms in the National Gallery, illustration from The Illustrated London News, 18 November 1876, p.484. NG, NG30/1876/2

Figure 24

The New West Gallery, Room XXV [now Room 9], photograph from The Architectural Review, Vol XXIX, April 1911, p. 227

Figure 25

View of the New Room at the National Gallery, illustration from The Building News, 19 July 1861, p. 605

Figure 26

Current Room 35 at the National Gallery (room XVI on opening in 1876), looking into Room 36 (the Octagon Hall/Dome). Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 27

G. Gabrielli, Room 32 in the National Gallery, London, oil on canvas, 1886. Government Art Collection (on loan to NG)

Figure 28

Current Room 34 at the National Gallery (room XII on opening in 1876). Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 29

National Gallery Trafalgar Square: Details of Roof to Central Gallery, illustration from The Building News, 29 April 1887, between pp. 662-663. NG, NG30/1887/1

Figure 30

The modern ceiling of the Central Hall at the National Gallery, showing the monitor skylights. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 31

J. D. Crace, Original Proposal for the Decoration of the Entrance Staircase to the National Gallery, watercolour on paper, c.1887. NG, H8.

Figure 32

Photograph of the Entrance Hall at the National Gallery, taken from the North Vestibule, with dome ahead and skylight above. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 33

Photograph of the Entrance Hall at the National Gallery, taken from the West Vestibule, with dome overhead. Author’s photograph, June 2016

Figure 34

E.M.B. Warren, View of the Entrance Hall, National Gallery, London, watercolour, 1896, showing the steps leading up to the North Vestibule and the top-lighting overhead. NG30/1896/1

Figure 35

Detail of domed ceiling over centre gallery (Room XXVII) [now Room 11], The Architectural Review, April 1911, p. 228

Figure 36

Title illustration, S. Colvin, ‘The Longford Castle Pictures at the National Gallery’, The Art Journal, January 1891, p. 1

Figure 37

Photograph from ‘The Panshanger Vandycks’, The Daily Graphic, 27 February 1909

Figure 38

Bedford Lemere & Co., National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London: The entrance hall, photograph, 1888. RIBA7540, RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Figure 39

Illustration from ‘“Right Be’ind for ‘The Mill’”: Looking at the £100,000 Picture’, The Illustrated London News, 25 March 1911

Figure 40

E. R. Taylor, ‘Twas a famous victory, oil on canvas, 1883, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Figure 41

Office of Works, National Gallery. Proposed glazed screens round walls: elevation of north wall and south wall, gallery 14 (detail), watercolour, 29 May 1914. TNA, WORK 33/1918

Figure 42

Photograph of Agnew’s 1907 annual watercolour exhibition at 39 Old Bond Street. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 43

Exhibition of Twenty Pictures by Masters of the Early English School on behalf of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary [exhibition catalogue] (Liverpool: Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., 1902). National Art Library, Catalogues Collection, 77.L Box

Figure 44

Advertisement for Thos. Agnew & Sons (back cover, detail) from. H. Blackburn, Grosvenor Notes 1878: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1878).

Figure 45

Messrs. Agnew & Sons’ New Premises, illustration from The Building News, 19 October 1877, pp. 386-387. NG, NGA27/28/3

Figure 46

The Exchange Art Galleries, Liverpool. For Messrs. Thomas Agnew & Sons. Salomons, Wornum, & Ely, Architects, London and Manchester, illustration from The British Architect and Northern Engineer, 20 September 1878, between pp. 116-117. NG, NGA27/28/2

Figure 47

R. Oldham, New Premises, Exchange St Manchester, drawing, 1897. NG, uncatalogued

Figure 48

Liverpool, Dale Street, 1895, photograph looking east from the corner with Castle Street. The Agnew’s building is to the extreme left of the image, with a picture visible in the window. Permission to reproduce given by and © The Francis Frith Collection, neg. 36653

Figure 49

The Fine Arts Repository of Messrs. Agnew and Sons, Manchester, illustration in G. Measom, The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway, Including the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and Midland Railways, with Descriptions of the Most Important Manufactories in the Large Towns on the Lines (London: Griffin, Bohn & Co, [1861]), p. 408. NG, NGA27/28/5

Figure 50

Messrs. Harding Howell & Co. 89 Pall Mall, hand-coloured aquatint from R. Ackermann, A Complete Set of Hand-Coloured Aquatint Views of London from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politic (London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1809), Plate 12. Reproduced with the kind permission of SPL Rare Books

Figure 51

Interior of The Exchange Art Galleries, Liverpool, photograph from ‘Autumn Exhibitions’. The Art Journal, December 1902, p. 388

Figure 52

E. Salomons, pen-and-ink drawing [?] of William Agnew in the main ground-floor room of Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, c.1877. NG, NGA27/33/4/5

Figure 53

Photograph of wallpaper in Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition gallery (detail), 1908. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 54

Bedford Lemere & Co., The south drawing room (Lord Braybrooke’s room) at Audley End, Essex, photograph, 1891. RIBA7526, RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Figure 55

Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, Limited, 160 New Bond Street, advertisement from M. B. Huish, The Year’s Art 1889 (London: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1889), p. 9

Figure 56

The Central Hall, illustration from H. Blackburn, New Gallery Notes. 1888. An Illustrated Catalogue with Facsimiles of Sketches by the Artists (London: Chatto & Windus, 1888), p. 2

Figure 57

Lease from The Exchange Street Property Co. Ltd. to Thos. Agnew & Sons for Nos 12 and 16 Exchange Street, Manchester, (detail, ground floor), 10 June 1898. NG, NGA27/20/3/6

Figure 58

Photograph of one of the ground-floor skylights at retailer Etro, 43 Old Bond Street, June 2016. Author’s photograph

Figure 59

List of callers to Agnew’s branch at 39 Old Bond Street, 7 January 1907. Letterbook 4 1906- 1909, (detail), NG, NGA27/11/4, p. 35

Figure 60

Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Twenty Masterpieces of the English School’, winter 1899. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 61

Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Twenty Masterpieces of the English School’, winter 1899. NG, NGA27/21/11

Figure 62

Twenty selected pictures by Italian masters: on exhibition at the galleries of Thos. Agnew & Sons… [exhibition catalogue] (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1899), title page; p. 9. National Art Library, Catalogues Collection, Agnew & Sons' Galleries. Catalogues. 1890- 1899. (17-24)

Figure 63

Plan of the 1895 Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, from Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School [exhibition catalogue] (London: Wm. Clowes & Sons, 1895), contents page (detail)

Figure 64

Sketches at the Water Colour Exhibition now Open at Messrs. Agnew’s Galleries, illustration from ‘Messrs. Agnew’s Galleries’, The Daily Graphic, 14 February 1891. NG, NGA27/22/2/1

Figure 65

Zanetti’s Gallery, Manchester, aquatint, unknown artist and date. NG, NGA27/18/5

Figure 66

P. A. Martini after H. Ramberg, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787, etching, 1787. © Victoria and Albert Museum, mus. no. 27807

Figure 67

H. Jamyn Brooks, Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888, oil on canvas, 1889. © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1833. William Agnew is indicated by the red square

Figure 68

Photograph of Agnew’s Bond Street exhibition ‘Annual exhibition on behalf of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution’, 1907. NG, NGA27/21/1

Figure 69

Photograph of the first-floor skylight at retailer Etro, 43 Old Bond Street, June 2016. Author’s photograph

Appendix 1: National Gallery plans Key

British School J. M. W. Turner Italian Schools Dutch/Flemish Schools German School Spanish School French School Bequests

National Gallery plan: 1836

Illustration from ‘The National Gallery’, Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 299 (31 October to 30 November 1836), p. 469. The National Gallery rooms were in the West Wing of the original Wilkins building (to the left, unshaded), with the Royal Academy rooms in the East Wing (shaded)

National Gallery plan: 1869

Plan adapted from Blackburn, H., Pictorial Notes in the National Gallery [British School] (London: Chatto & Windus, 1877) p. 6. Hang information taken from 'Fine Arts', Illustrated London News, 24 April 1869; it is not clear whether the two rooms left uncoloured here (and not mentioned in the article) were in fact integrated into the ‘three large rooms’ of the west wing

National Gallery plan: 1877

Adapted from H. Blackburn, Pictorial Notes in the National Gallery [British School] (London: Chatto & Windus, 1877), p. 6

National Gallery plan: 1883

Adapted from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Deceased Painters, British and Modern Schools, 46th ed. (London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1883), n. p.

National Gallery plan: 1887

Adapted from ‘The New National Gallery’, The Pall Mall Gazette, 2 July 1887

National Gallery plan: 1890; 1894

Adapted from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Painters Foreign Schools, 75th ed. (London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1890), p. 4

National Gallery plan: 1901

Adapted from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Painters. Foreign Schools, 79th ed. (London: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1901), p. 4

National Gallery plan: 1907

Adapted from The National Gallery [Trafalgar Square] Illustrated Catalogue (London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1907), p. 4

National Gallery plan: 1913

Adapted from National Gallery: Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures, 81st ed. (London: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1913), pp. iii; v

National Gallery plan: 1913 (index)

National Gallery: Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures, 81st ed. (London: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1913), p. v