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Hertford House

Historic residence · London, England

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About Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau

Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau, known from 1871 as Lady Wallace is best known today for her "bequest to the Nation" of about 5,500 artworks that resulted in the Wallace Collection, which opened in her marital home 13 years after her death. Her bequest was almost certainly in fulfilment of the wishes of her late husband Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, who together with his father and grandfather, the 3rd and 4th Marquesses of Hertford, had amassed the majority of the collection.

From the Wikipedia article “Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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