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British Museum And Produced: Queen Victoria requested him to photograph the royal family and estates. He then became official photographer to the British Museum and produced hundreds of prints of artifacts and works of art in that collection. The excellence of his work led die printseller Thomas Agnew and Son to commission him to photograph the theater of war in the Crimea.The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Museum of Modern Art(MOMA), perhaps the world's most comprehensive collection of modern art, was founded (1929) by prominent New York art collectors for the purpose of acquiring and exhibiting the best modern works of art. The National Gallery in London ranks among the greatest galleries in the world and contains works representing the major periods of European painting. The gallery was founded (1824) with paintings from the J.J. Anaerstein Collection. Bavarian king Maximilian I.The gallery was designed to house the ped-imental sculpture from the temple of Aphaia at Aegina, Greece (c. 490 BC). The Tate Gallery in London, originally known as the National Gallery of British Art, was opened in Jul. 1897. Originally conceived by Sir Henry Tate (1819-99) as a showplace for contemporary British art, the Tate gradually evolved into a more broadly based art gallery and museum. |
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