Lord Iveagh & the art market

Kenwood House Volunteer, Bill Aldridge, gives an online talk on Lord Iveagh and the Art Market, explaining how he built up the great art collection at Kenwood House, London.
Bill Aldridge relates how Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh created an art collection unrivalled in Britain. He was the Chairman of the world’s largest brewery, Guinness, which had floated on the London stock market in 1886, and that same year he moved to London from Ireland. With his wife, Adelaide, he bought nearly 250 pictures through the art dealer Agnew's, ranging from Old Masters to the 19th century. Kenwood House has 63 paintings from the original Iveagh Bequest Act of 1929 through which Guinness gave Kenwood House to the nation, including one of Rembrandt's most famous self-portraits and a Vermeer.
Introduction and fade-out music: Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 for piano, arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel in 1922. 1922 was the year that the contents of Kenwood House were sold at auction, 3 years before Lord Iveagh purchased Kenwood in 1925.
Produced by Friends of Kenwood
www.friendsofkenwood.org.uk

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Excellent - many thanks