Samuel Courtauld (art collector)
Samuel Courtauld was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector. He founded The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1932 and, after a series of gifts during the 1930s, bequeathed his collection to the institute on his death.
The Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers from 1775 to 1780, has housed The Courtauld Institute of Art since 1989.
The graves of Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld in Margate Cemetery, Kent
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as the Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist colleges for the study of the history of art in the world and is known for the disproportionate number of directors of major museums drawn from its small body of alumni.
Somerset House, home of the Courtauld
Qalaat al-Marqab (Margat Castle), Syria, photographed by Anthony F. Kersting. Photograph held at the Conway Library.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) by Édouard Manet, in the Courtauld Gallery's collection since 1934