12 Facts About Wallace Collection

Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford.

The Wallace Collection is a non-departmental public body and the current director is Xavier Bray.

Wallace Collection is a museum which displays works of art collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by five generations of a British aristocratic family – the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess.

Wallace Collection is said never to have visited his principal English country seat of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire.

Sir Richard Wallace Collection used the Back State Room to entertain guests at Hertford House.

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Lady Wallace Collection's housekeeper was Mrs Jane Buckley, a Londoner by birth.

Oriental arms and armour in the Wallace Collection were largely collected by the 4th Marquess of Hertford in the 1860s, the last decade of his life.

Sir Richard Wallace acquired most of his European armour in 1871, when he bought the collections of the comte Alfred Emilien de Nieuwekerke, Minister of Fine Arts to Napoleon III and director of the Louvre, as well as the finest parts of the collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, a pioneering collector and scholar of arms and armour.

Wallace Collection contains some of the most spectacular Renaissance arms and armour in Britain.

Sir Richard Wallace Collection would have invited his male guests to the Smoking Room after dinner, to discuss affairs of the day over an enjoyable pipe or cigar.

Wallace Collection added the conservatory, in place of a Venetian window on the Landing and two first-floor rooms on each wing.

Wallace Collection is split into six curatorial departments: Pictures and Miniatures; Ceramics and Glass; Sculpture and Works of Art; Arms and Armour; Sevres porcelain; and Gold Boxes and Furniture.