About the museum
The story of the Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection is shown in Hertford House, a London townhouse in Manchester Square. It was built up by four generations of the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, and Wallace's widow left it to the nation; it opened in 1900.
It is especially famous for French eighteenth-century painting by Fragonard, Boucher and Watteau, and also holds Titian, Rembrandt, Velázquez and Frans Hals.
The collection
The Wallace Collection holds about 5,500 works, displayed in the rooms of a London townhouse much as they were by its founders. Its French eighteenth-century paintings by Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard are among the finest anywhere, alongside Sèvres porcelain and furniture made for Marie Antoinette.
Its old masters include Titian's Perseus and Andromeda, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier, and it also holds one of Europe's great collections of arms and armour.
At ArtLogia you can order 93 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 51 artists led by Horace Vernet, François Boucher and Willem van de Velde the Younger.
- paintings to order
- 93
- artists
- 51
- art movements
- 9
- years covered
- 1464–1865
The building
Hertford House was built in the 1770s for the Duke of Manchester and remodelled by Sir Richard Wallace in the 1870s. Its courtyard was covered with a glass roof in 2000, and the collection was left to the nation on the condition that it be kept together and nothing added to it.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Entry is free, and the glass-roofed courtyard restaurant makes an elegant stop near Oxford Street.
