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FELIX SLADE (170o-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX See also:SLADE (170o-1868)  , See also:English See also:art See also:collector and See also:patron, was See also:born at See also:Lambeth, See also:London, in See also:August 1790, the son of See also:Robert See also:Slade, a See also:Surrey landowner, from whom he inherited considerable means . He became widely known as a purchaser of books and engravings, and made a valuable collection of See also:glass . He died unmarried on the 29th of See also:March 1868, leaving personalty to the value of £164,000 . He bequeathed the bulk of his art collection to the See also:British Museum, and £35,000 for the endowment of art professorships, to be known as Slade Professorships, at See also:Oxford, See also:Cambridge, and University See also:College, London . University College received the additional See also:bequest of six art scholarships .

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