Ince Blundell Hall Statues
Ince Blundell Hall was noted for the collection of marble statues from Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece and 17th and 18th-century Italian sculptures by artists such as Carlo Albacini and Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. They were collected by Henry Blundell and housed first in a purpose-built Garden Temple (1792), and later in a scaled-down version of the Pantheon (1802-1804). The ancient sculptures, including some from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, are now located in the World Museum, Liverpool. The 18th-century sculptures are in the city's Walker Art Gallery. Henry Blundell also collected paintings and furniture, some of which is in the Walker Art Gallery. Henry's estranged son Charles Robert Blundell (1761-1837) made a large collection of drawings many of which are also in the Walker Art Gallery and have been catalogued.
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