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Londons Foundlings - Up to a thousand babies a year were abandoned in early 18th-century London. In 1739 Thomas Coram established a Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Children which looked after more than 27,000 children until its closure in 1953. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the foundlings, how they lived and displays the many poignant objects relating to their lives at the Hospital. Permanent.
Britains
First Art Gallery - William
Hogarth (1697-1764), one of the original Governors of the Foundling Hospital,
encouraged leading artists of the day to donate works to the childrens home,
with the aim of attracting wealthy potential benefactors.
In
doing so, he created Britains first public exhibition space, which became
a centre of artistic experimentation and led to the formation of the Royal Academy
of Arts in 1768. Today the collection contains works by Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough,
Wilson, Hayman, Highmore, Roubiliac and Rysbrack, displayed in fully restored
interiors as they would have been seen by visitors to the original Hospital
in the 1700s. Permanent
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Coram Family in the care of the Foundling Museum
The
Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, England's first home
for abandoned children. The Museum also holds the nationally-important Foundling
Hospital art collection, a remarkable collection of eighteenth century paintings
and sculptures, brought about by the involvement of the painter William Hogarth
who not only donated works himself but encouraged his fellow artists to do the
same making the Foundling Hospital England's first public art gallery. The Museum
is also home to the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, the largest privately-owned
collection of Handel memorabilia, which reflects the Hospital's early links with
the composer George Frideric Handel, who performed benefit concerts in the Hospital's
chapel.
The
Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
London WC1N 1AZ
www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
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