John Julius Angerstein (1732 – 22 January 1823),, a London businessman and Lloyd's under-writer, was a patron of the fine arts and a collector. It was the prospect that his collection of paintings was about to be sold by his estate in 1824 that galvanised the founding of the National Gallery, London.
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