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Reitlinger
Name
Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1882-1950
Connection to Wilson
Collector
Biographical Details
Henry Scipio Reitlinger was an art historan and collector of Old Master drawings, Oriental porcelain and Renaissance ceramics. His publications included Old Master Drawings, a Handbook for Amateurs and Collectors (1922). He left much material - both ceramics and drawings - to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. His posthumous sale included a version of The Gypsies, formerly in the Fairfax Murray collection, A Road near the Ramparts of a Town from the Sandby collection and four other drawings by Wilson, including D353 Figures and Deer by a wooded Lake (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) and possibly D244 The Falls at Tivoli, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven.

Collector's mark: Lugt 2274a
Significant institutions
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Updated by Compiler
2018-04-10 00:00:00