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The Fitzwilliam Museum is not just the principal museum of the University of Cambridge but also one of the leading UK museums outside London. This book traces its story from the Museum’ s origins in the 1816 bequest of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, up to the present day. At the same time it sets the Fitzwilliam’ s individual story against the larger context of the growth and development of museums and galleries in the UK and further afield.The text and illustrations draw primarily on the rich and hitherto largely unpublished archives of the Fitzwilliam Museum, including the Syndicate Minutes, the reports of University debates published in the Cambridge University Reporter from 1870 on wards, compilations of earlier nineteenth-century documents, architectural plans and drawings, newspaper reports, letters, diaries, exhibition catalogues, photographs and other miscellaneous documents. With this material a substantial proportion of the narrative can be told through contemporary voices, not least those of the Museum’ s thirteen Directors to date, each one a strong and influential character.

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Drawing --- Sculpture --- poetry --- portraits --- Graphic arts --- drawings [visual works] --- sculpture [visual work] --- writings [document genre] --- prints [visual works] --- Literature --- Bernier, Charles --- Verhaeren, Emile --- sculpture [visual works] --- writings [documents] --- Verhaeren, Emile. --- Bernier, Charles. --- Caillou-qui-Bique (Roisin) --- Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge).

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Nine essays explore the study and collecting of Netherlandish art in Cambridge. The Speelman Fellowship in Netherlandish Art at Wolfson College, Cambridge, celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2011. Holders of the Fellowship have included such world-renowned scholars as Dr Lorne Campbell of the National Gallery, London, Professor Joanna Woodall of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Professor Ivan Gaskell of the Bard Institute in New York. They have all contributed to the present volume, which presents new research by no fewer than seven Speelman Fellows and is edited by the post's present incumbent. Edward Speelman's endowment of the Fellowship in 1971 has crucially supplemented Cambridge's tradition of distinguished scholarship in the field. It also complements the important holdings of Dutch and Flemish works in the Fitzwilliam Museum and in Cambridge Colleges, a range of which are discussed in this volume. The eminent historian of Early Modern Art, Professor Jean Michel Massing of King's College, who has advised on the selection of Speelman Fellows for nearly forty years, also contributes an essay here.

collecting --- art history --- celebrations --- Art --- Festschriften --- Speelman, Edward --- University of Cambridge --- Fitzwilliam Museum [Cambridge] --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Netherlands --- Great Britain --- Flanders --- Art, Dutch --- Art, Flemish --- Arts, Dutch --- Arts --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge-Massachusetts) --- satire --- trompe l'oeil --- Brouwer, Adriaen --- Brueghel, Jan (de Oude) --- Leoni, Leone --- Speelman, Anthony --- Sweerts, Michael --- Weyden, Rogier van der --- Cambridge --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- historische gebeurtenissen en situaties (spotprent, satire van een historische gebeurtenis) --- Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) --- Cambridge (UK) --- van der Weyden, Rogier --- Brueghel, Jan I --- Art, Dutch - Collectors and collecting - England - Cambridge --- Art, Flemish - Collectors and collecting - England - Cambridge --- Arts, Dutch - History --- Arts - Netherlands - History --- trompe l'oeil. --- historische gebeurtenissen en situaties (spotprent, satire van een historische gebeurtenis). --- Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge). --- Speelman, Edward. --- Speelman, Anthony. --- van der Weyden, Rogier. --- Brueghel, Jan I. --- Brouwer, Adriaen. --- Sweerts, Michael. --- Leoni, Leone. --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden. --- Cambridge (UK).