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JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 499 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882) ,
English
  art collector, was born about 1800 in or near London. He was apprenticed to a tailor, and about 1825 opened a shop of his own in the west-end of London. In 185o he was able to retire from active management with a large fortune. When quite a
young
  man he had begun to collect articles of vertu. The rooms over his shop in which he at first lived were soon crowded, and even the bedrooms of his new
house
  in Piccadilly were filled with art treasures. His collection was valued at approximately 250,000.
Jones
  died in London on the 7th of January 1882, leaving his pictures, furniture and objects of art to the
South
  Kensington Museum.
A Catalogue of the
Jones
  Bequest was published by the Museum in 1882, and a Handbook, with memoir, in 1883.


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