FELIX

See also:

• FELIX SLADE (170o-1868)

SLADE (170o-1868)  , English art collector and patron, was born at Lambeth, London, in August 1790, the son of Robert Slade, a 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 glass . He died unmarried on the 29th of March 1868, leaving personalty to the value of £164,000 . He bequeathed the bulk of his art collection to the British Museum, and £35,000 for the endowment of art professorships, to be known as Slade Professorships, at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College, London . University College received the additional bequest of six art scholarships .