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Victoria and Albert Museum

Catalogue reference: FHS/4/1/146a

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This record is a file about the Victoria and Albert Museum dating from 1916.

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Reference
FHS/4/1/146a
Title
Victoria and Albert Museum
Date
1916
Description

Includes:

-two letters exchanged between Finberg and M.A. Kennedy, Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 22 December 1915 and 6 February 1916, concerning obtaining images of works of art from the National Portrait Exhibitions of 1866, 1867, and 1868

-handwritten list of works of art requested, undated (10pp)

Held by
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Language
English
Physical description
1 file
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Open for research. Readers must fill in an 'Reader Agreement Form' which outlines the reading room rules and conditions concerning privacy and Data Protection

Administrative / biographical background

Alexander Joseph Finberg (1886ñ1939) was an art historian and expert on the artist J.M.W. Turner.

Finberg was educated at City of London College, Kings College London, and the Lambeth School of Art. In 1905, he was commissioned to catalogue and organise the paintings in the Turner Bequest, and this resulted in the publication of the Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest in 1909. In 1911 he co-founded the Walpole Society

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FHS/4/1

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Victoria and Albert Museum