Permanent Collection
In 1998 the Handel House Collections Trust acquired the Byrne Collection, a large collection of several hundred objects connected with Handel. These include:
- correspondence of Handel,
- original manuscripts,
- a copy of one of the first biographies of Handel by John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens,
- early editions of operas and oratorios
- prints,
- paintings
- sculptures.
Around the same time the trust also bought two paintings of Jennens (by Thomas Hudson) and the opera singer Faustina Bordoni (by Bartolomeo Nazari).
During 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the Handel House Museum will be mounting a series of special exhibitions and events, entitled Handel Reveal'd. The permanent collection will be supplemented by a large number of paintings and prints connected with the life and work of Handel on loan from other collections in Britain. In addition a rarely seen life mask of Handel by Roubiliac from a private collection will be on display.
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