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  Mr. and Mrs. John Julius Angerstein | Musée du Louvre
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), banker and art collector, and his second wife, Eliza Payne (1748 or 1749-1800) were among the first to appreciate the talents of Thomas Lawrence.
John Julius Angerstein was one of the most important figures of the British financial world at the end of the eighteenth century.
Angerstein's belt reflecting that of her husband's jacket, for example), and there are thematic echoes, with the gentleness of the background also expressed in the two sitters' faces.
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 John Julius Angerstein - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1822), London merchant, Lloyd's under-writer, and patron of the fine arts, was born in St Petersburg, Russia (it has - wrongly - been suggested that he was an illegitimate son of Catherine the Great!) and settled in London about 1749.
In his role as a merchant he was said to own a third share in slave estates in Grenada, using profits from the slave trade to build up his art collection (and also benefitting from Lloyd's underwriting of the slave trade).
A public house, The Angerstein, is on Woolwich Road, close to the Woolwich flyover (Blackwall Tunnel A102(M) southern approach) - on the opposite side of which lies the Angerstein Business Park (owned by Greenwich Enterprise Board).
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 John Julius Angerstein - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN JULIUS ANGERSTEIN (1735-1822), London merchant, and patron of the fine arts, was born at St Petersburg and settled in London about 1749.
His collection of paintings, consisting of about forty of the most exquisite specimens of the art, purchased by the British government, on his death, formed the nucleus of the National Gallery.
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 Reference Encyclopedia - 1735
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 John Julius Angerstein, aged over 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Angerstein (1735 - 1823) was a banker, of a German family settled in Russia, who lived in England from about 1750.
The Angerstein Collection was purchased in 1824 by the Government of Lord Liverpool and formed the nucleus of the National Gallery.
The painting was ordered by George IV a few months after the sitter's death, and based on a portrait by Lawrence of 1816.
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  John Julius Angerstein at AllExperts
In his role as a merchant he was said to own a third share in slave estates in Grenada, using profits from the slave trade to build up his art collection (and also benefitting from Lloyd's underwriting of the slave trade).
Angerstein was chairman of Lloyd's from 1790 to 1796 and counted King George III, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and artist Sir Thomas Lawrence among his friends.
A public house, The Angerstein, is on Woolwich Road, close to the Woolwich Road flyover (Blackwall Tunnel A102 southern approach) - on the opposite side of which lies the Angerstein Business Park (owned by Greenwich Enterprise Board).
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 John Julius Angerstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angerstein was chairman of Lloyd's from 1790 to 1796 and counted King George III, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and artist Sir Thomas Lawrence among his friends.
His collection of paintings, consisting of about forty of the most exquisite specimens of the art, purchased by the British government, after his death, formed the nucleus of the National Gallery.
He lived for some years in Greenwich in south-east London, building a house, Woodlands, in 1774 in an area now known as Westcombe Park, part of a wide area on the north-eastern fringes of Blackheath that he sought to enclose in 1801.
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 Blackheath, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Julius Angerstein, whose art collection formed the basis of the National Gallery, London in 1824, built Woodlands, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park.
Caroline of Brunswick, married to the Prince Regent, was banished in 1799 to a private residence ('The Pagoda' - attributed to architect Sir William Chambers) in Blackheath.
Montague John Druitt, for many years a popular suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, lived in Blackheath, at 9 Eliot Place, during the 1880s.
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 George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, baron Dover - LoveToKnow 1911
In party politics, however, he took little interest, but he zealously advocated in parliament and elsewhere that state encouragement should be given to the cause of literature and the fine arts.
In 1824 he was the leading promoter of the grant of L J 7,000 for the purchase of John Julius Angerstein's collection of pictures, which formed the foundation of the National Gallery.
On the formation of Lord Grey's administration, in November 1830, he was appointed chief commissioner of woods and forests, but was compelled by delicate health to resign it after two months' occupancy.
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 John Julius Angerstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Julius Angerstein (1735 - 1822), London merchant, Lloyds under-writer, and patron of the fine arts,was born in St Petersburg, Russia (it has - wrongly - been suggested that he was an illegitimate son of Catherine the Great !) and settled in London about 1749.
In his role as a merchant he was said to own a third share in slave estates in Grenada, using profits from the slave trade to build up his art collection (and also benefitting from Lloyds'underwriting of the slave trade).
A publichouse, The Angerstein, is on Woolwich Road, close to the Woolwich flyover (Blackwall Tunnel A102(M) southern approach) - on the opposite side of which lies the Angerstein BusinessPark (owned by Greenwich Enterprise Board).
www.therfcc.org /john-julius-angerstein-112714.html   (305 words)

  
 Julius John Pommer ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Julius John Pommer, Sea Coast, 19th - 20th century
Julius John Pommer, Backyard, 19th - 20th century
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil on canvas; 36 x 28 in.
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 Woodlands Art Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Woodlands Art Gallery is housed in a Georgian villa, next door to Mycenae House, in the Westcombe Park area of Greenwich, London.
The building was built in 1774 for John Julius Angerstein, a Lloyds under-writer whose art collection was bought in 1824 to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, London.
Acquired by the London Borough of Greenwich in 1967, the house opened as a Local History Library and Art Gallery in 1972.
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 John Julius Angerstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1822), Londýn obchodník, Lloyds dolů-spisovatel, a patron výtvarných umění, byl narozen v St Petersburg, Rusko (to má - špatně - been navrhl, že on byl nemanželský syn Kateřina velký!) a usazoval se v Londýně o 1749.
Aktivní návštěvník kostela, Angerstein uctíval v Greenwich centrum města u St Alfege kostel - kde on byl také kurátor.
Angerstein cesta, se blížit k vřesovišti u Blackheath, nosí jeho jméno. Hospoda, Angerstein, je na Woolwich cestě, blízko u Woolwich nadjezdu (Blackwall tunel A102 (M) jižní přístup) - na protější straně kterých lží Angerstein obchodní park (vlastněný Greenwich tabule podniku).
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 A Life of John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823:
This is the first full-length biography of John Julius Angerstein, who was a considerable figure in the City of London and far beyond during the period 1770-1820.
Twist’s study is an especially valuable portrait of a real-life Andrew Freeport, a City man who emerged from the Anglo-Russian merchant community to become a leading insurance broker and government loan contractor, a tireless philanthropist, and a collector whose paintings became the nucleus of the National Gallery.
This is the first serious study of the extraordinary career of John Julius Angerstein – and one that magisterially reveals the productive collision between financial markets at the end of the eighteenth century...
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 A life of John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823; widening circles in finance, philanthropy, and the arts in eighteenth ...
A life of John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823; widening circles in finance, philanthropy, and the arts in eighteenth century London.
British merchant and government loan contractor John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) used his wealth to found a number of charities and to collect fine art.
Twist's narrative of Angerstein's life underscores the merchant's business acumen, his charitable generosity, and his "ever widening" social and economic ties to other important figures from London and beyond.
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 John Julius Angerstein -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His collection of paintings, consisting of about forty of the most exquisite specimens of the art, purchased by the (The people of Great Britain) British government, after his death, formed the nucleus of the (Click link for more info and facts about National Gallery) National Gallery.
An active churchgoer, Angerstein worshipped in Greenwich town centre at (Click link for more info and facts about St Alfege's Church) St Alfege's Church - where he was also (An officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters) churchwarden.
A public house, The Angerstein, is on Woolwich Road, close to the Woolwich flyover ((Click link for more info and facts about Blackwall Tunnel) Blackwall Tunnel A102(M) southern approach) - on the opposite side of which lies the Angerstein Business Park (owned by Greenwich Enterprise Board).
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 Lloyds of London (1936 b 117')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Julius Angerstein (Guy Standing) explains syndicates to Jonathan, who asks for a job.
Angerstein proposes military convoys; but Jonathan objects to Nelson's fleet being reduced and suggests lower rates.
Angerstein tells Stacy that his wife's fortune is in Jonathan's syndicate.
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 The Bridge, March 2002, Parish Profile - St John's Blackheath
St John's was built in 1853 by the son of John Julius Angerstein whose collection of paintings formed the basis of the National Gallery in 1832.
The memorial hall in St John's Park is dedicated to the then incumbent's daughter Elsie Marshall, a 26 year old missionary to China murdered in 1895 by 'the Vegetarian Sect'.
St John's was recently approached again about an advertisement in which a priest looks at his watch during a service and rushes away because he realises his film has started.
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 Savageau Gallery
Although Amelia Angerstein probably had no pretensions about her own talents, the quality of the collection certainly would have helped her refine her eye.
The appeal of the Angerstein pieces is their unselfconscious sense of intimacy, their total lack of pretension and the artist’s obvious affection for her subjects.
In 1824, the year following her husband’s death, the Angerstein art collection was purchased by the Government of Lord Liverpool and became the founding nucleus of England’s National Gallery.
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 John Julius Angerstein Greenwich Blackwall Tunnel Russia London London Borough of Greenwich Westcombe Park Woodlands ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ANGERSTEIN, J. - LoveToKnow Article on ANGERSTEIN, J. in the i4th century.
ANGERSTEIN, JOHN JULIUS (1735-1822), London merchant, and patron of the fine arts, was born at St Petersburg and...
Beaumont, and a government purchase in 1824 of 38 works from the collection of merchant John Julius Angerstein, in whose house in Pall Mall they were initially displayed.
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 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On John Keats
Ravaged by consumption, John Keats died in Rome at the age of 25 in 1821 and he is buried in a quiet corner of the graveyard with a simple tombstone.
The poet John Keats and composer Frederick Chopin died of TB.
Shroud, by John Banville (Alfred A. Knopf, $25).
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 Julius John Pommer ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Julius John Pommer, San Francisco Bay Bridge Approach, 1937
Julius John Pommer, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, circa 1940
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil on canvas; 36 x 28 in.
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 Thomas LAWRENCE : Mr et Mrs John Julius Angerstein | Musée du Louvre
John Julius Angerstein (1735 - 1823), banquier et collectionneur, et sa seconde femme, Eliza Payne (1748 ou 1749 - 1800) furent parmi les premiers amateurs de Lawrence.
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) fut l'une des figures du monde financier britannique à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.
Très lié à M. Angerstein, il recevra d'autres commandes du financier, peignant son fils, sa belle-fille et ses petits-enfants.
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 A Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of John Julius Angerstein, Esq. Containing a Finished Etching of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of John Julius Angerstein, Esq.
YOUNG, JOHN, A Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of John Julius Angerstein, Esq.
Angerstein was a wealthy merchant and a notable philanthropist, as well as a passionate amateur of art.
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 Ruskin MP I Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Prior to this, the collection of thirty -eight pictures, which had been purchased for the Nation in 1824 on the death if Mr.
John Julius Angerstein,(1735-1823) had continued to be displayed at Mr.
A new room was added in 1860 and in 1869 the Royal Academy took over Burlington House making five more rooms available.
www.lancs.ac.uk /depts/ruskin/empi/notes/hnatg01.htm   (144 words)

  
 Mr and Mrs John Julius Angerstein by LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas
Mr and Mrs John Julius Angerstein by LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas
This portrait is one of Lawrence's masterpieces and depicts, together with his wife, one of the founders of Lloyds insurance market.
The Portrait of the Children of John Angerstein, a painting also in the Louvre, are the young children of this couple.
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