Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet was a British art patron and amateur painter. He played a crucial part in the creation of London's National Gallery by making the first bequest of paintings to
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Landscape with Hagar and the Angel (Claude, 1646), Beaumont's favourite painting
Conway Castle (Beaumont, 1809)
Taddei Tondo (Michelangelo, c. 1504–5)
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The British Institution was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it was also known as the Pall Mall Picture Galleries or the British Gallery
Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet
…effectively committees of artistic taste: he sat on the monuments committee for St Paul's Cathedral from 1802 and was one of the founding directors of the British Institution (established in 1805). Despite his openness for romantic poetry, Beaumont was less receptive of new developments in painting. A staunch defender of the…
The British Institution building from a wood-engraving in London (1851) edited by Charles Knight
Portrait of William Seguier, the first Superintendent, in 1830 by John Jackson
Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lords, 7 July 1778 by John Singleton Copley; exhibited in the first exhibition, although over 20 years old.
Vision of Saint Jerome by Parmigianino, bought in 1823 for £3,302 for presentation to the National Gallery