Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar was a British art collector.
Turner's Venice from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (1837), now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Munro commissioned the painting but did not like it.
Turner, The Lake of Zug, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Raphael, Madonna dei candelabri (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), acquired by Munro after 1841
Andrea del Sarto, Charity (National Gallery, Washington)
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The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro. The family produced a notable dynasty of doctors to London in the 18th and 19th century where they were
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar
…1845), which Ruskin had commissioned but disliked. Turner appointed him one of his executors in 1849. Curiously, a very distant kinsman of Munro's, Dr Thomas Monro, had been one of the earliest supporters of the young Turner and, according to Ruskin, had exercised a significant influence on his art. Munro also…
Monro of Fyrish coat of arms
Dr James Monro, 8th of Fyrish
Dr John Munro, 9th of Fyrish
Dr Thomas Monro