Collections
The museum's collection numbers nearly 5,500 objects and is best known for its quality and breadth of eighteenth-century French paintings, Sèvres porcelain and French furniture.
The Wallace Collection also displays many other treasures, such as two paintings by Titian, four Rembrandts, three Rubenses, four Van Dycks, twenty-two Canalettos, nineteen Bouchers, masterpieces by de Hooch, nine Teniers, Frans Hals, nine Murillos, two Velázquez and paintings by Domenichino, Cima, Daddi, Reni, Rosa, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Antoine Watteau, Nicholas Lancret, Jan Steen, Aelbert Cuyp and nine Guardis. The museum also holds a fine collection of arms and armour, featuring both European and Oriental objects, as well as displays of gold boxes, miniatures, sculpture and medieval and Renaissance works of art such as maiolica, glass, bronzes and Limoges enamels.
The works of art in the Collection comprise:
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- Paintings,Watercolours and Drawings 775
- Furniture 528
- Ceramics 510
- European and Oriental Arms and Armour 2,370
- Sculpture 466
- Miniatures 334
- Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art 363
- Goldsmiths' Work 120
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Large Drawing Room - Contains some of the most spectacular works by the French furniture-maker, Andre-Charles Boulle
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Part of the Wallace Collection's great ensemblage of Sèvres porcelain
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Front State Room - Redecorated in the mid-1990s to appear as though it would have in the late-19th century
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The Great Gallery in 2012, featuring Rubens' "Landscape With A Rainbow", portraits by Van Dyck, and other important works
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