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partaking in their trade as a means of supplementing his income, as well as participating in an activity popular among British high society and exercising what the archaeologist Louise Willocx terms his "patriotic duty". He sold other objects privately on the London art market. His sales included, in 1872, the first examples of Aegean seal-stones to enter the museum's collection, sourced from Rhousopoulos and his rival
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with a prominent role in archaeology and conservation, and donated a few objects to its museum. Galanakis estimates that Merlin earned around £160 per year from his sales to the British Museum, which was broadly comparable with the amount he gained from selling antiquities privately, and that he was
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Between 1865 and 1892, Merlin supplied around 460 objects to the British Museum, primarily Greek and Roman antiquities. He had earlier sent naturalistic specimens to the museum: in 1844, he presented it with twenty specimens of birds from Athens. He had little interest in antiquities, but saw
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at Athens for diplomatic functions, making the role of the Piraeus consulate, in Merlin's own words, "strictly a commercial one". Merlin spent most of his life in Athens: the historians Lucia Patrizio Gunning and Despina Vlami describe him as a
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by a popular uprising in 1862, he gained widespread respect for his assistance of many Greeks caught in the ensuing chaos, as well as for procuring credit from the Ionian Bank for the Greek government and protecting the Bank of Greece.
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Merlin's relationship with Newton began in 1864, when Newton visited Athens and identified a number of antiquities, which Merlin agreed to purchase on his behalf. In 1865, he facilitated the sale of the
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antiquity Schliemann claims for them, I am not able to judge", and described Schliemann as "vulgar in his manners" and as "giv his opinions as if there is no-one who knows anything but himself".
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Troy. Merlin, himself a friend of Schliemann's, wrote to Newton on 6 November 1872 expressing his doubts about Schliemann's claims, and describing Schliemann's obsession with Troy as "
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Merlin has been termed a significant figure in the identification and trafficking of antiquities between Athens and London. He maintained a close professional relationship with
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Willocx, Louise (2020). "Athenian Commercial Weights: A History of Museum Collections and a General Overview of the Corpus". In Doyen, Charles; Willocx, Louise (eds.).
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Galanakis, Yannis; Nowak-Kemp, Malgosia (2013). "Ancient Greek Skulls in the Oxford University Museum, Part II: The Rhousopoulos–Rolleston Correspondence".
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Charles Louis William Merlin was born in 1821 to French parents, François-Nicolas and Augusta Merlin. François-Nicolas was a relative of the aristocrat
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In 1846, he was appointed as British Vice-Consul at the Piraeus, an unpaid position. In the same year, he became an agent for the
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district of Athens. Galanakis has attributed Merlin's recruitment to his bilingualism in French and English, as well as his good
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and Augustus – survived to adulthood. Sidney became a botanist and competed for Great Britain in shooting events at the
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Jenkins, Ian (1990). "Acquisition and Supply of Casts of the Parthenon Sculptures by the British Museum, 1835–1939".
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his wife on the spot, in an ecstasy of antiquarian delight", when he discovered the alleged remains of Agamemnon.
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for purchase. The unauthorised export of antiquities was illegal in Greece, and Rhousopoulos was prosecuted by
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From the 1850s, Merlin took a greater role in diplomatic work, participating in commissions concerning the
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Merlin was fluent in English, French and Greek. On 31 August 1847, he married Isabella Dorothea Green at
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By way of comparison, Rhousopoulos earned 350 drachmas a month from his professorship at Athens in 1859.
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Burn, Lucilla (2005). "How Few Men Have the Right Head on Their Shoulders!". In Crummy, Nina (ed.).
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Galanakis, Yannis (2014). "Arthur Evans and the Quest for the 'Origins of Mycenaean Culture'". In
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in 1886. From the early 1860s until his return to Britain in 1887, he corresponded closely with
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In 1839, Merlin took a job as a clerk and administrator for the British consulate based in the
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After Newton retired from the British Museum in 1885, Merlin maintained a correspondence with
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stated that his family had emigrated "during the turbulent times of the French Revolution".
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for a cost of £33. The West Frieze was the only full section of the frieze remaining
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Merlin's sales to the British Museum totalled around 460 objects. These included the
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Born to a family of French aristocrats settled in London, Merlin joined the British
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in the 1880s and was promoted to consul in 1917, serving in the role until 1920.
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in 1876, which Schliemann claimed to be the burial-place of the Homeric king
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In 1887, Merlin retired from his consular duties and moved his family to
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Specifically, the 1856 killing of three members of the Leeves family in
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in 1877; he reported to Newton afterwards that "whether they are of the
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and willingness to advocate for British interest. Britain maintained an
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to the museum, acting as intermediary between the Athens art dealer
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Merlin further reported to Newton that "the Greeks swear
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British diplomat and antiquities trader (1821–1896)
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Portrait of a middle-aged man with a full beard.
To Asty
Campden Hill
British Museum
Sidney
Signature reading "C.L. Merlin", written in a flowing hand.
British Museum
consular service
Piraeus
Ionian Bank
consul-general
Charles Newton
Aineta aryballos
Parthenon marbles
in situ
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
French Revolution
restoration of the Bourbon monarchy
Dulwich College
public school
South London
Piraeus
penmanship
envoy extraordinary
Levantine
Eastern Mediterranean
Ionian Bank
Patras
Missolonghi
Constantinople

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