Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves (58 page)

and Pierpont Morgan
283

relationship with Cole
22
,
68
,
74
,
80
,
81
,
85–93
,
96
,
111

relationship with the museum after Cole's retirement
107–12

and Renaissance
2
,
53
,
58–59
,
103
,
246

sells part of his collection
76
,
119

Skinner's attitude to
116
,
118

and Special Exhibition
12–14
,
19
,
24
,
41
,
47
,
81–82
,
228–29

Surveyor of Queen's Pictures
113–14
,
119

talent for rewriting the past to his advantage
109

townhouse in York Place
73
,
100

Robinson, Marian Elizabeth (née Newton)
73

Rolfe, W. H.
206–7

Romantic movement
23

Rome
78
,
79
,
148

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz
302

Rosetta Stone
42
,
222

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
251
,
257–61
,
263
,
264
,
266
,
267
,
269
,
273
,
274
,
281
,
284
,
285
,
375
,
376

Rossetti, Elizabeth
260

Rossetti, William
258–59

Rothschild family
305
,
306

Rotterdam
147
,
163
,
169
,
170
,
173

Rouen Museum, Normandy
172

Royal Academy, London
30
,
43
,
44
,
53
,
58
,
107
,
155
,
272
,
277

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain
155

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey
348

Royal Collection
103–4

Royal College of Art: ‘Female School'
155

Royal Commissions
42
,
46

Royal Geographical Society
196
,
257

Royal Institution, Liverpool
196
,
219

Royal Mersey Yacht Club
236

Royal Museum, Berlin
220

Royal Navy
327

Royal Society
196
,
200
,
257

Royal Society of Arts (previously Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
15

Royal Society of Painters and Etchers
120

Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours
156

Rubens, Peter Paul
104
,
230
,
309

Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor
27

Ruskin, Effie
245

Ruskin, John
24
,
37
,
45
,
56–57
,
82–83
,
118
,
234
,
245
,
264

and the Sheffield museum
39–40
,
41
,
227

Seven Lamps of Architecture
63

The Stones of Venice
63
,
266
,
370

‘The Two Paths' (lecture)
36

Russell, Lord John
17

Saffron Walden Museum
200

St Mark's Cathedral, Venice
63

Salisbury, Earls of
137

Salt, Henry
221

Salt, Titus
235

Saltaire, near Bradford
252

Salting, George
357
,
366
,
367

Sams, Joseph
220

Sargent, John Singer
262

Saturday Review
175

Sauvageot, Charles
60–61

Saxe-Weimar, Grand Duke of
78

Scharf, George
234

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
238

Schools of Design
20–21
,
46–47
,
57
,
60
,
84
,
88

Schopenhauer, Arthur
263

Schreiber, Colonel Charles (‘Charley')
125–28
,
144–45
,
160
,
215

Art Treasures Exhibition
234

ceramic collecting
158
,
162
,
166

death
183

family background and education
144

Fine Arts Club
156
,
181

gourd-shaped bottle story
168–74

ill-health
127
,
147
,
168
,
182–83

marries Charlotte
144–45

parliamentary role
169

personality
145

solo trip to Holland
168
,
169–70

statistics of trips
165

tutors Charlotte's son Ivor
144
,
145

Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (née Bertie)
195
,
223
,
281
,
308

achievements of
186

appearance
131–32

and Art Treasures Exhibition
234

at ‘van Galen's'
269

on Bock's ‘sad story'
280

childhood
133

a close friend of Franks
163

collecting interests
2
,
128
,
130–31
,
141
,
156–57
,
158
,
179–80
,
373–74

death
185
,
374

donation to South Kensington Museum
131
,
183–85
,
371

family background
132–33

and Fine Arts Club
156

first marriage to John Guest
135–40

forgery issue
298
,
303

gourd-shaped bottle story
168–74
,
177

helps other women collectors
162–63

ill-health
168

an intrepid traveller
2
,
126–28

and John's death
143–44

and Joseph Joel Duveen
147–48
,
150
,
152–53

late enthusiasm for collecting
132
,
146
,
153–54

and Layard's excavations in Mesopotamia
222

Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
229

and Marks
275

marries Charles Schreiber
144–45

and Mayer
196

meets and marries John Guest
134–35

respected as a collector
164
,
177
,
184

scholarship
177–80

statistics of trips
165

translates
The Mabinogion
140–41

visits the Great Exhibition
142–43

Scott, Sir Walter
197
,
205
,
335

The Antiquary
191–92
,
197

Second Afghan War (1878–80)
340

Second Opium War (1855–60)
321
,
355

Second Republic (France)
56

Settled Land Act (1882)
29

Shangdu, Inner Mongolia
324

Shanghai
318–21
,
350
,
368

Shaw, Richard Norman
270–71
,
278

Sheffield
36
,
47
,
218
,
238

museum
39–40
,
41
,
227

Sickert, Walter
275

Sierra Leone
333–34

‘Silverpen'
see
Meteyard, Elizabeth

Skinner, Arthur Banks
116
,
117

Smith, Major Robert Murdoch
328

Smith, Admiral William Henry
257

Snyders, Frans:
Dead Game and Fruit
103

Soane, Sir John
42
,
377

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (known as the Society of Arts; later Royal Society of Arts)
7
,
15
,
20
,
23
,
43

‘Ancient and Medieval Art' exhibition (1850)
23

Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts
58

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
120

Society of Antiquaries
120
,
155
,
196–200
,
204
,
222
,
302
,
310

Society of Chemical Industry
199

Society of Dilettanti
43

Sotheby's auctioneers
120
,
174
,
209
,
221
,
237
,
307
,
376

Soulages, Jules
231

South Kensington, London
7

South Kensington Museum (later Victoria and Albert Museum), London
2
,
227
,
356

Brompton Boilers
75
,
238

and Bushell
340
,
347
,
348–49
,
366–67

ceramics displays
158

Chinese displays
340
,
346

Cole as first Director
18
,
19–20

collecting Japanese objects
340

Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886)
338

described
9–10

forgery issue
297
,
300
,
311

Franks catalogues Japanese ceramics
327

identity of the collection
96

Indian material
339

international objects
324–25
,
329–30
,
331–32

loan exhibitions
46
,
47

Magdala Treasure
223

range of objects bequeathed
372–73

relocation from Marlborough House to South Kensington
69–72

renamed (1899)
120

rivalry with the British Museum
149

Robinson as Curator
2
,
12
,
64–65
,
67–68
,
88
,
98
,
148

Robinson offers pieces from his collection
115–16
,
120

role of
22
,
68
,
84–85
,
231

Ruskin attacks
24

Schreiber collection
183–85

‘Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and more Recent Periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum' (1862)
10–12
,
19
,
24
,
41
,
47
,
81–82

Catalogue of Chinese Objects
346

Speke Hall, Liverpool
284

Spencer, Herbert:
Principles of Biology
337

Spenser, Earl
109

Sphinx, Giza
221

Spitzer, Frédéric
306

Staffe, Baroness
132

Stafford, Marquess of
43

Standard, The
249
,
252

Stanley, Henry Morton
316

Stansted Park, West Sussex
174

Stanwick Park, Yorkshire
198

Stein, Sir Aurel
363

Sterling, Edward
251

Stoa, Athens
238

Stobart, Henry
220

Stone, Marcus
271

Stotesbury, Edward
288

Stowe House, Buckingham
29

Strutt, Joseph
252

Suez Canal
221

Sullivan, Sir Arthur
333

Sunderland
36

museum
40–41

‘Sunderland Library, The'
29–30

Sunderland Museum and Library
33

Sung dynasty (960–1279)
342

Sweden: national gallery of art
57

Swinburne, Algernon
260

Tangiers, Morocco
131

Tarragona
163

Tate Gallery, London
53
,
150

Temple Club, Strand, London
328–29

‘Ten Thousand Chinese Things' exhibition (Hyde Park, London, 1841)
345

Teniers, David, the Younger
27

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
23
,
234

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
247

Thebes
221
,
222

Thirty Years War (1614–48)
27

Thomas, Edward
251

Thompson, Sir Henry
82
,
276–78
,
280
,
287

exhibition opening
278
,
279

Thomson, John
345

Tiffany & Co.
283
,
298

Times Literary Supplement
311

Times, The
20
,
29
,
104
,
107
,
112
,
264
,
276
,
292
,
293

Tippoo's Tiger
338
,
339

Tipu, Sultan of Mysore
338

Titian
53
,
230

Townsend, Henry
333–34