Charles Drury Edward Fortnum
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Charles Drury Edward Fortnum, often known as C. Drury E. Fortnum, was an English art collector and historian, known as a benefactor of the University of Oxford.
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The Fortnum family vault in Highgate Cemetery
Iznik mosque lamp, dated 1549, donated to the British Museum by Charles Drury Edward Fortnum
John Tradescant the Younger
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John Tradescant the Younger, son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener. The standard author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he described.
Charles Drury Edward Fortnum
…ware, Luca Della Robbia and bronzes. Fortnum has been regarded as the second founder of the Ashmolean Museum. The collections of Elias Ashmole and John Tradescant the younger were awkwardly stored in a building on Broad Street, Oxford. Fortnum was impressed by the efforts of Arthur John Evans to arrange and display the…
John Tradescant the Younger, attributed to Thomas de Critz
Tomb in the garden of the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, next to the entrance of Lambeth Palace. London
Portrait by William Dobson, circa 1720
Ester, his second wife, by Thomas de Critz. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford