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Bought with Love

Helen Rosslyn reveals the influence of the 17th-century British pioneer collectors such as Thomas Howard and how the Whitehall Group brought a taste for the Baroque.

2020
How collecting reached its maturity in the 19th century when the booming economy encouraged philanthropic industrialists to spend their fortunes on art.
Episodes 2017
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With Britain's country houses being home to world-class art collections full of priceless old masters and more, this three-part series sees art historian Helen Rosslyn tell the story of how great art has been brought to Britain by passionate collectors and how these same collectors have also turned patron and commissioned ...
Episodes 2013
How the booming 19th-century economy saw philanthropic industrialists buying great art.
A look at the era when aristocrats filled their villas with 17th-century masterpieces.
A look at the influence of the 17th-century pioneer collectors such as Thomas Howard.
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