John Bouverie
John Bouverie (* 1723 in Betchworth , Surrey , † September 19, 1750 in Aydın ) was a British nobleman and art collector .
John Bouverie, son of Sir Christopher Bouveries († 1732/33) and younger brother of Freeman Bouverie († 1734), studied at New College in Oxford from 1737 . From 1740 to 1742 he undertook the Grand Tour to Italy, which is common for a young British nobleman, with his tutor, the doctor John Cephane . In 1745/46 he made a second trip to Italy with the diplomat Richard Phelps as tutor and his college friend, the antiquarian James Dawkins . In 1749 he traveled via Rome to Naples , from where in May 1750 he began a research trip to the eastern Mediterranean with James Dawkins and Robert Wood and the draftsman Giovanni Battista Borra . On this trip he died early in Güzel Hisar (now Aydin) and was buried in Smyrna (now Izmir ).
During his stays in Italy, he put together a large, high-quality collection of hand drawings, which after his death were divided among his sisters and passed first to Sir Charles Middleton via inheritance and then to Sir Gerald Noel and his descendants via inheritance . Parts of the collection were sold in 1859, 1919, 1920, 1922 and 1953.
literature
- Nicholas Turner: John Bouverie as a collector of drawings . In: Burlington Magazine 136, No. 1091, 1994, pp. 90-99.
Web links
- John Bouverie as a collector in the digital edition of Frits Lugt : Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouverie, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1723 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Betchworth , Surrey |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1750 |
| Place of death | Aydın |