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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 See also:JONES (c. 1800-1882)  , See also:English See also:art See also:collector, was See also:born about 1800 in or near See also:London . He was apprenticed to a tailor, and about 1825 opened a See also:shop of his own in the See also:west-end of London . In 185o he was able to retire from active management with a large See also:fortune . When quite a See also:young See also: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 See also:house in Piccadilly were filled with art treasures . His collection was valued at approximately £250,000 . See also:Jones died in London on the 7th of See also:January 1882, leaving his pictures, See also:furniture and See also:objects of art to the See also:South See also:Kensington Museum . A See also:Catalogue of the Jones See also:Bequest was published by the Museum in 1882, and a Handbook, with memoir, in 1883 .

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