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Via the Beazley Archive: The collection of the Fourth Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817) at Blenheim Palace was the largest and most important of the 18th-century English collections, internationally regarded by scholars and connoisseurs as the greatest of the private collections. It comprised about 800 pieces. Of these one third was a Renaissance collection of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua (15th/16th-century), acquired by Lord Arundel in the mid-17th century; one third the mid-18th-century collection of Lord Bessborough (including collections of Lord Chesterfield and others); and one third from the Duke's own collecting in Italy and elsewhere. The Gonzaga gems were famed in Renaissance Italy but never published (as were the Medici); the Bessborough gems were a good mix of ancient, Renaissance and later, published in summary lists without illustration; while the Duke's own interests took him over the whole field, from ancient to neo-classical, and he was a notable patron of the most important neo-classical engravers, whose works he acquired. He sponsored a two-volume publication (Delectus) in drawings of 105 pieces.
The Marlborough Gem collection is one of the most famous dispersed collections to ever exist. And every time that one of the lost gems is rediscovered it creates a firestorm in the collector's market. With one such gem in 2019 going from an 800 British Pound auction estimate to nearly 80k British Pounds after the realization that it was a Marlborough Gem.
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