JOHN

See also:

• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JOHN JONES (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

JONES (c. 1800-1882)  , English art collector, was born about 1800 in or near London . He was apprenticed to a tailor, and about 1825 opened a 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 January 1882, leaving his pictures, furniture and objects of art to the South Kensington Museum . A Catalogue of the Jones Bequest was published by the Museum in 1882, and a Handbook, with memoir, in 1883 .