Collector of Genius: A Life of Sir George Beaumont (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Friend and patron of Constable, Wordsworth and Coleridge, successful painter, and a collector whose acquisitions became the nucleus of the National Gallery, Sir George Beaumont was a central figure in the artistic and literary worlds of late eighteenth - and nineteenth - century England. However, until now there has never been a comprehensive biography of this multifaceted and talented man. Now Felicity Owen and David Blayney Brown have remedied this omission, providing a balanced and sensitive portrayal of the man, his works, and his times.