Excerpt from Provisional Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection: With Short Notices of the Painters The collection was bequeathed on the condition that the Government for the time being should agree to give a site in a central part of London, and build thereon a special museum to contain it, and it was provided that the said collection should always be kept together, unmixed with other objects of art, and should be styled The Wallace Collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.