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Article: English furniture at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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The distinguished collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, have been well known since Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) established the museum in 1919 in what had been his house. The collection opened to the public on January 27, 1928, and our familiarity with it rests in part on the iconic nature of many of the major British paintings it contains -- Jonathan Buttall: The Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough (see Pl. I), for example, and Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse of 1783-1784, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). The English furniture, by contrast, is less well known, for the first love of ...
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