The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, w
Front entrance of the main building
Photograph of Richard Wallace, 1857
Hertford House, Manchester Square, in 2018, showing the alterations made by Sir Richard Wallace 1872-82
Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, central London. Centred 950 feet north of Oxford Street it measures 300 feet internally north-to-south, and 280 feet across. It is a s
Wallace Collection
…The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, who built the extensive collection, along…
Manchester Square in the 1790s
Hertford House, home of the Wallace Collection, viewed from the gardens in Manchester Square