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auctioned what remained of the collection (including paintings, terracotta models, prints, and drawings). Browne's estate at his death was still worth over £12,000 (divided equally into three bequests to his sons), along with many small gifts.
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for marbles and other objects from well known Italian collections and excavations near Rome; a third seems to have been planned, judging by the survival of drawings of more objects from the collection by
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for £22,000 in 1784, though his agent in St Petersburg went bankrupt and Browne only got £10,000 of this sum. Browne died soon afterwards, in 1787.
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and banker, who owned one of the largest antiquities collections of the time. This now forms the nucleus of the classical
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A. M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni: a complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text, ed. E. P. Bowron (1985)
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His collection was in constant flux, with the buying and selling of many objects. He sold most of it to
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O. Neverov, ‘The Lyde Browne collection and the history of ancient sculpture at the Hermitage Museum’,
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X. Gorbunova, ‘Classical sculpture from the Lyde Browne collection’, Apollo, 100 (1974), 460–467
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Catologo dei piu scelti e preziosi marmi, che si conservano nella galleria del Sigr Lyde Browne
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Catalogus veteris aevi varii generis monumentorum quae cimeliarchio Lyde Browne … asservantur
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in the city's suburbs. The Hermitage Museum website calls him John Lyde-Brown, as does
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He married Margaret Barwell after 15 November 1751. He and his wife Margaret had a
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Catalogue of the choicest and most precious marbles in the gallery of Mr Lyde Browne
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He then took a second journey to Italy between 1776 and 1778, during which
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By 1762, Browne moved the museum he had established in Rome back to his
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Catalogue of the various ancient monuments in the museum of Lyde Browne
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painted his eldest daughter Frances's portrait. In 1779, he published
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between 1753 and 1754. In Rome in 1758, he met the sculptor
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The European Magazine: And London Review 1786 - Google Books
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in 1752 (though he resigned in 1772). He travelled to
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A Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy
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Nieborów Palace
National Museum
Warsaw
FSA
Foster Lane
Cheapside
London
antiquary
sculpture
Hermitage Museum
Pavlovsk Palace
Society of Antiquaries
Florence
Rome
Simon Vierpyl
William Wilkins
Thomas Jenkins
country house
Warren House
Wimbledon
director
Bank of England
Pompeo Batoni
provenance
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Catherine the Great

Pompeo Batoni
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