Richard Wallace
See also: Wallace
Richard Wallace , born with London the July 26th 1818 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1890, is a collector and British philanthropist.
Wire illegitimate of Lord Hertford and Agnes Jackson, French origin, it carries out an idle youth and attends the artists of its time: Flaubert, Théophile Gautier or Baudelaire. It also gathers a vast collection of tables and objets d'art thanks to the fortune of his father, which it inherits in 1870. In 1871, it is anobli and in 1873, it enters to the House of Commons.
In France, it devotes part of its fortune to the assistance to Parisian besieged by the Prussians. To cure the problems of water provision, it equips Paris with public fountains, famous the fountains Wallace. The first among it is inaugurated in August 1872.
To its death, its collection is bequeathed at the British State. The Wallace Collection is from now on a national museum. Sir Richard Wallace is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.
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