Wallace Collection the largest, most important and extant collection of French 18th-century decorative arts in the world, rivalled only by the triumvirate of the Musée du Louvre, Château de Versailles and Mobilier National in France. The Wallace Collection is a non-departmental public body and admission is free. The Wallace Collection is a museum which displays the works of art collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by five generations of a British aristocratic family – the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess. In the 19th century, the Marquesses of Hertford were one
Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art be one of the greatest private collections of 20th century art in the world", reported the "Hartford Courant". The collection was estimated to be worth USD$84 million in 1987. In 2015 dollars, this amount can be very roughly estimated at over USD$150 million. In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama was photographed in front of one of the artworks formerly in the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art, "Victory Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondrian, at its current location in the Netherlands. The artwork is also on the cover of a biography on Emily Hall Tremaine. The painting was sold in 1998