Martin Henry Colnaghi (16 November 1821 – 1908) was a British art dealer for the London-based

Colnaghi Colnaghi is an art dealership in St James's, central London, England, which is the oldest commercial art gallery in the world, having been established in 1760. Foundation The business that became the Colnaghi gallery was established by Itali ...

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Grave of Martin Henry Colnaghi in Highgate Cemetery

Personal life

He was born on 16 November 1821 at 23

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, London, and baptised Martino Enrico Luigi Gaetano. He was the eldest son of Martin Colnaghi and his wife, Fanny Boyce Clarke, and a grandson of Paul Colnaghi of Pall Mall. Colnaghi had three marriages, but no children. #Sarah Nash #Elizabeth Maxwell Howard (died 1888) #On 17 October 1889, he married Amy Mary Smith, daughter of the artist George Smith Colnaghi died on 27 June 1908, aged 86, at the Marlborough Gallery, and was buried on the eastern side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...

Legacy

Colnaghi bequeathed four paintings to London's

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Painting, painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school (art), Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He pain ...

's ''Madonna and Child and Saints'',

Philips Wouwerman Philips Wouwerman (also Wouwermans) (24 May 1619 (baptized) – 19 May 1668) was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes. Life