Conclusion
Huth and his wife possessed a large number of paintings by some of the greatest British artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He also was a significant patron of contemporary artists, and included in his collection were paintings by leading figures of the Aesthetic movement, such as James McNeill Whistler RA (1834-1903), and major works by G. F. Watts OM RA (1817 –1904), the leading English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Huth was also an important collector of silver and porcelain, and was a friend and adviser to the great collector George Salting.
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