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JOHN JONES (c. 1800-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN JONES (c. 1800-1882)  ,
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English
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art
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collector, was born about 1800 in or near
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London . He was apprenticed to a tailor, and about 1825 opened a
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shop of his own in the west-end of London . In 185o he was able to retire from active management with a large fortune . When quite a young man he had begun to collect articles of vertu . The rooms over his shop in which he at first lived were soon crowded, and even the bedrooms of his new house in Piccadilly were filled with art treasures . His collection was valued at approximately £250,000 . Jones died in London on the 7th of
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January 1882, leaving his pictures, furniture and
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objects of art to the South
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Kensington Museum . A Catalogue of the Jones Bequest was published by the Museum in 1882, and a Handbook, with memoir, in 1883 .

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