Wallace Collection Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is an art collection in London open to the public, housed at Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It comprises an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with important holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms and armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 30 galleries. It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left both it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir
Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art for USD$40 million. Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art The Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art (c. 1945-55) was formed in Meriden, Connecticut as part of the Miller Company. The collection was formed by then-CEO Burton Tremaine, Sr. and his wife/Miller Co. art director Emily Hall Tremaine in c. 1945. The collection itself is most noted for its "Painting toward architecture" exhibition, putting forth Post-WWII art, design and architecture crossovers, originating at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, and travelling to at least 28 additional venues in 1947–52 across the United States. The business purpose of the exhibitions was part