Organisation:  Orleans House
Event:  Exhibition: Collectors & their collections
Category:  Exhibitions
Cause:   
Date:  Until 6th June
Venue:  Orleans house Gallery    Click here for map of venue
Venue Address:
Riverside
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1  3DJ
Times:  Tuesday - Saturday 1.00-4.30pm, Sunday 2.00-4.30pm
Costs:  Free
Nearest Train Station:  Twickenham
Bus Routes:   
Contact:   
Telephone:  020 8831 6000
e-mail:  artsinfo@richmond.gov.uk
Website:  www.richmond.gov.uk/arts
Additional Information:
Private Passions for Public Pleasure- The Richmond Borough Art Collection, examining the relationship between the individuals & their private collections.
The Borough Collection comprises 2,700 + works of art and objects: 18th C to the present day, formed in 1963 with the Ionides Bequest of 467 local views and portraits.
The exhibition brings together key works from the Iondies Collection, complemented by a number of loans from private collections, including fine Meissen & oriental porcelain, furniture and charming 18th century Dutch and English conversation pieces.
Other collectors represented are the 19th century explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), who is buried in a mausoleum in Mortlake styled as an Arab tent.!