Private collections most often reflect the taste and purse of a single person, unanswerable to anyone else. Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon (1855- 1945) is an excellent example. A wealthy businessman and philanthropist, he collected some four hundred late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century British watercolors. He died without issue, and the collection is now owned by his great-nephew, Sir Nicholas Bacon.

Sir Hickman had unusual tastes for his time. His collection is especially strong in the ethereal late watercolors of Joseph Mallord William Turner, which only became ...

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