Felix Joseph Slade was an English lawyer and collector of glass, books and prints.
Portrait of Slade, c. 1851, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
University College London, which operates as UCL, is a public research university in London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the second-largest universi
Felix Slade
…Antiquaries (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed three Slade Professorships of Fine Art at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of Art (founded 1871) in London, whose Director holds the Slade…
Share no. 1105 in the University of London, issued 3 February 1829
The London University (now the UCL Main Building) as imagined by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd in 1827–28, when construction was in progress. The portico and dome were completed in 1829, but lack of funds meant it would be many years before reality matched the picture.
Henry Tonks' 1923 mural The Four Founders of UCL
The Wilkins Building in 1956