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 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