Edward Solly (1776-1848)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/63480
- Name (English)
- Edward Solly
- Short name
- Edward Solly
- Year of birth
- 1776
- Year of death
- 1848
- Short Description
- "Edward Solly (25 April 1776 – 2 December 1844) was an English merchant living in Berlin, who amassed an unprecedented collection of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento paintings and outstanding examples of Early Netherlandish painting, at a time when those schools were still largely unappreciated. In 1821 Solly sold his collection of about 3000 works to the Prussian king; 677 of them formed a core of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Solly acquired a second collection during his years in London after 1821. Solly is also credited for having undertaken a
perilous journey to deliver the first news of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig to the English." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
- piz
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