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The Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers from 1775 to 1780, home of the Courtauld Institute and the Courtauld Gallery since 1989. From 1958 to 1989 the Courtauld collection was housed in part of the premises of the Warburg Institute in Woburn Square; [9] it was thus separated from the Courtauld Institute, which was in Home House, Portman Square.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) by Édouard Manet, in the Courtauld Gallery's collection since 1934. The Courtauld's art collection is housed in the Courtauld Gallery. The collection was begun by the institute's founder, Samuel Courtauld, who presented an extensive collection of mainly Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1932 ...
Samuel Courtauld (7 May 1876 – 1 December 1947) was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector. He founded The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1932 and, after a series of gifts during the 1930s, bequeathed his collection to the institute on his death.
Thomas Gambier Parry was a notable collector of medieval and Renaissance art; the Courtauld Institute was bequeathed his collection in 1966. [ 3 ] After studying the technique of the Italian fresco painters, Thomas Gambier Parry developed his own spirit fresco method and executed grand-scale mural projects at Ely Cathedral , Gloucester ...
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Antony Eastmond (born 22 August 1966) [1] is a British art historian specializing in Byzantine and medieval Caucasian (Georgian and Armenian) art.He is Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art, acting Executive Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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It is known as the Garrison Collection and he became its honorary curator. The collection is an important source of material for medieval Italian art studies. [1] The collection is currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art as part of a larger digitisation project of the Conway Library. [4]