Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Title: Paul Sandby’s Collection of Drawings
Speaker: Rosie Razzall (Curator of Drawings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
Abstract: The British draughtsman Paul Sandby (1731–1809) is most familiar for his watercolours, but less well-known is that he had a large collection of Old Master drawings. Numbering around 3000 sheets, the drawings are readily identified by his PS collector’s stamp (Lugt 2112), added when his collection was dispersed, mostly in three large sales after his death. No attempt has yet been made to reconstruct or examine the contents of Sandby’s collection of drawings, which in size and scope is easily comparable to eighteenth-century British collections such as those of Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Lawrence. In this talk, Rosie Razzall discusses Paul Sandby’s collection and his character as a collector.
Title: Paul Sandby’s Collection of Drawings
Speaker: Rosie Razzall (Curator of Drawings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
Abstract: The British draughtsman Paul Sandby (1731–1809) is most familiar for his watercolours, but less well-known is that he had a large collection of Old Master drawings. Numbering around 3000 sheets, the drawings are readily identified by his PS collector’s stamp (Lugt 2112), added when his collection was dispersed, mostly in three large sales after his death. No attempt has yet been made to reconstruct or examine the contents of Sandby’s collection of drawings, which in size and scope is easily comparable to eighteenth-century British collections such as those of Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Lawrence. In this talk, Rosie Razzall discusses Paul Sandby’s collection and his character as a collector.
