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3 unusual facts about Burlington Fine Arts Club


Burlington Fine Arts Club

Part of the clubhouse doubled as a regular exhibition venue, the location having been selected for its proximity to Mayfair art dealers.

The club had its roots in the informal Fine Arts Club, a gathering of amateur art enthusiasts that met in Marlborough House in 1856, moving to South Kensington from 1857.

Francis Seymour Haden

By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists.



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