Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria (MELBOURNE)
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Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests from Their Inception to 31st December 1922. Compiled by Charles Bage. (Supplement No. 1. From January 1st, 1923 to December 31st, 1926.).
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria (MELBOURNE)
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Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Pages : 159
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests from Their Inception to 31st December 1922
Author: Felton Bequests Committee
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests
Author: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
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Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Pages : 65
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests from Their Inception to 31st Dec
Author: Felton Bequests Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Pages : 84
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests
Author: Alfred Felton
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests, from Their Inception (to Dec. 31st, 1926).
Author: Charles Bage
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Historical Record of the Felton Bequests from Their Inception to 31st December 1922
Author: Felton Bequests Committee
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Mr Felton's Bequests
Author: John Poynter
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855520
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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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 triumphs and occasional follies, of decisions made and unmade amid changing notions of art, philanthropy and public taste. John Poynter's account of Felton's life and the story of his Bequests covers most of Melbourne's history, from the unusual view point of three themes, business, art and charity.
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855520
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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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 triumphs and occasional follies, of decisions made and unmade amid changing notions of art, philanthropy and public taste. John Poynter's account of Felton's life and the story of his Bequests covers most of Melbourne's history, from the unusual view point of three themes, business, art and charity.
Historical Record of the Felton Bequests
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
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Languages : en
Pages : 1386
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