Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves (57 page)

death
374

Egyptian objects
222
,
224–25
,
375

and Faussett collection
204–6

flourishing workshop
194

forgeries in his collection
298

funding
207–8

invests in a public library
251–53

involvement in Bebington
249–53

a Liverpool jeweller
2
,
189
,
208
,
217

love life
241–44

his museum in Liverpool
217–27
,
237
,
238
,
239
,
241
,
247
,
253

personality
200

portraits
189–93
,
205
,
216
,
217
,
227

purchases existing collections wholesale
206–7

and Roach Smith
202
,
224
,
238

start of his interest in collecting
195

in the volunteer movement
249–51

and Wedgwood
210–15

‘History of the art of pottery in Liverpool'
248

Mayer, Joseph and Boyle, Frederick

Early Exhibitions of Art in Liverpool: With some Notes for a Memoir of George Stubbs, R.A.
248

Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott and George Stubbs R.A.
248

Mayer Collection
238–39

Mayer Hall, Bebington
374

Mayer Library
374

Mayer Trust
374

Mechanics' Institutes
34–35
,
46

Meissen works
166

Meredith, George
246
,
260

The Egoist
247

Merlin
140

Merthyr Tydfil
135
,
139

Meteyard, Elizabeth
243

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
77
,
305

Mexican quartz crystal skull forgeries
297–98

Michelangelo
53
,
103

David
70

‘Manchester Madonna'
228

Milan
62

Milan, Duke of
307

Millais, John Everett
245
,
251
,
260
,
262

Christ in the House of His Parents
245

Ming dynasty
342

Monet, Claude
333

Monte di Pièta
78–79

Morelli, Giovanni
308

Morgan, J.P.
288

Morris, William
251
,
267
,
273

Mortimer, John
199

Mortlocks (London dealers)
163

Mosses, Alexander
190

Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore
358

Munich
180

Musée Central des Arts, Paris
54

see also
Louvre

Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin
326

Museums Acts
36
,
41

Nagasaki, Japan
332
,
340

Napier, Robert
103

Napoleon I, Emperor
55
,
63
,
220
,
222
,
226

Napoleon III, Emperor
78
,
79
,
250

Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815)
57
,
166

Nash, Paul
251

National Art Collections Fund
120

National Art Training School
107

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
42
,
44
,
56
,
57
,
64
,
75
,
78
,
82
,
87
,
100
,
107
,
110
,
118
,
233
,
262
,
268
,
281

National Portrait Gallery, London
234

Natural History Museum, London
7

Negroni, Captain de
355

neo-classical style
237
,
238

Neville, Dorothy
163

New Hermitage, St Petersburg
238

New York
361
,
362

New York Herald
77

New York Times
293
,
294–95

New York World
307

Newbold, Mary
40

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society
35

Newcastle-under-Lyme
249

Newton Manor, near Swanage, Dorset
100–102
,
104
,
110
,
119
,
197
,
376

Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia (later Iraq)
142

North Eastern Railway Company
40

Northcote, Sir Stafford
33–34

Northumberland,
3
rd Duke of
198–99

Northumberland,
4
th Duke of
198–99

Norwich
238

Nottingham
47
,
51
,
52
,
61

Nottingham Museum
36–37
,
38
,
41

Nottingham School of Art
61

Nuremberg
Hausmaler
174

‘Octave' dinners
277

Ogubonna, Chief
334

‘Old Japan' porcelain
332

‘Old Nankin Porcelain'
364

Old Trafford, Manchester
228
,
230

Oppenheim, Mme (dealer in Paris)
130

Oriental Bank
362–63

Orléans Collection
27–28
,
30

Osborne House, Isle of Wight
104

Oudh, Nawab of
139

Overstone, Lord
82
,
232

Owen, Mary
190

Owen, Robert
38

Owen, Wilfred
251

Padua
62

Palace of Westminster, London
137

Palais de Tuileries, Paris
129

Palais Royal, Paris
28

Palissy, Bernard
300

Palmerston, Viscount
232
,
234

Panizzi, Antonio
149
,
280

Paris

at the heart of the collectors' circuit
167

Robinson in
52–56
,
58–62
,
166

the Schreibers in (1871)
128–30

Paris Commune
125
,
129
,
168
,
179

Paris Exhibition (1855)
8
,
17–18
,
235

Parkes, Sir Harry
340

Parmiggiani, Luigi (Louis Marcy)
303–4

Parry, William
336

Pater, Walter
24

Pattison, Mark
175

Paxton, Joseph
142

Peacock Room, London
284–87
,
288

Peel, Sir Robert
44
,
138

Pegus, Reverend Peter
133
,
135
,
145

Peking (now Beijing)
319–23
,
329
,
330
,
341
,
342
,
346
,
349
,
350
,
352
,
354
,
358
,
362
,
365
,
368

Pennant, Thomas
240–41

Journey from Chester to London
241

A Tour of Scotland
241

Pennant House, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside
240–43
,
247
,
249
,
252
,
253
,
374

Perry, Commodore
332–33

Philadelphia
77

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
205

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
27
,
28

Phillips, Henry Wyndham
251

Photographic Salon
58

Piccadilly Hotel, London
271

Pickford & Co.
263
,
270

Pierpont Morgan, J.
282–83
,
288
,
290

Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry
335

Pitt Rivers collection
335
,
377

Pitti Palace, Florence
111

playing cards
180
,
181–82
,
185
,
299

Polo, Marco
324

Polonet (Brussels dealer)
173–74

Pompeii
199

Ponsonby, William
137

Poona figures
317

Poynter, Edward J.
107–8

Prado, Madrid
57
,
238

Prague Castle
27

Prang, Louis
359

Pre-Raphaelites
2
,
228
,
230
,
245
,
260
,
261
,
264
,
266
,
286
,
375

Preston
36
,
238

Prudhoe, Lord (later Duke of Northumberland)
198

Public Libraries and Museums Act (1850)
36

Public Record Office
20

Pughe, William Owen
140

Pugin, Augustus
137

Pull, Georges
300–301
,
304

Pulszky, Franz
206

Punch Almanack
245

Punch
magazine
32–33
,
160
,
161
,
245
,
264

Pune, India
317

Purdon Clarke, Caspar
115–16
,
116

Putuo island
237

Pyramids, the
221

Quarterly Review
13
,
78

Queen Anne style
271

Raffles, Sir Stamford
327

Rainbow Landscape
104

Rameses II, Pharaoh
221

Raphael
53
,
103
,
230

Madonna degli Ansedei
30

Read, Charles Hercules
264

Redgrave, Richard
88

Reform Act (1867)
38
,
82

Rejlander, Oscar Gustave:
The Two Ways of Life
230

Rembrandt van Rijn
167
,
230

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
333

Representation of the People Act (Reform Act; 1832)
38

Reynolds, Sir Joshua
43

A Portrait of a Child with Doll
103

Rice, Eleanor Elkins Widener
288

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
57

Roach Smith, Charles and Bram Hertz collection
209

and Faussett collection
205
,
206

London collection
200–201

and Mayer
202
,
224
,
238

Robinson, Sir John Charles
195
,
200
,
223
,
231
,
262
,
308
,
324
,
371

aims to foster aesthetic appreciation
68

ambition
51
,
105
,
111

appearance
51
,
53

background and childhood
51

career as a dealer
99–111
,
121
,
141

on Chinese ceramic art
326

clients
102–3
,
104

collecting skills
71–72
,
91
,
102
,
107–8
,
112
,
180–81

his collection
76
,
113–16
,
119–20
,
121

on collectors
68–69

a connoisseur
24
,
68
,
81
,
91

and country-house collections
57

criticism of South Kensington
70
,
111–12

curator at South Kensington Museum
2
,
12
,
64–65
,
67–68
,
88
,
91
,
98

death (1913)
113
,
119
,
376

dismissal from art referee post
90–92
,
106
,
108

his estate
119–20

financial matters
72–76
,
79
,
80
,
86
,
87
,
97–100

Fine Arts Club
12
,
71
,
81
,
82–84
,
97

forgeries issue
298–301
,
303–4
,
307
,
310
,
311

and Franks
94
,
95
,
96
,
148–49

ill-health
86

in Italy
62–64
,
76
,
78
,
79
,
81
,
86
,
109

knighted (1887)
114

looks for homes for his pieces
115–16

and Marks
275

and Newton Manor
100–102
,
104
,
110
,
119
,
197
,
376

in Paris
52–56
,
58–62
,
166

personality
51
,
52–53
,
86
,
91
,
99
,
105
,
292