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OLIVER MILLAR (Ref OM)

This archive collection has not yet been catalogued. The material remains unsorted and in its original order. File titles given are those assigned by Oliver

Millar. Box numbers have been allocated by the Centre.

If you wish to consult any material from this collection, please specify the box number and file title (where applicable). Please note that it is only possible to

request 10 files or notebooks per retrieval. Access will be provided in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998. Full details relating to access to the

Centre’s collections can be found here: http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/23/

The material in this archive comprises correspondence, images, articles, research notes, published material and Oliver Millar’s notebooks.

Box number

Box title File or volume title Description of material (if applicable).

Covering dates

Extent

Sequence 1: Research files on artists

1 -Blyenbach: VM. Somerset House Conference -Cornelius Jonson – several files -Hanneman -Bacon -Leemput -Bower -Jackson -Parker, Travel etc, Scott Grenbury. Flesshiers -Shepherd, Mascall, Giles -Ecycke, Priwitzer, Belcamp, Lanier -I.H.Carlisle

http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/23/

-Tradescent Set. De Critz, Walter, Staphorst, E.S. Demetrius -Fuller, Van Hees, Stone, Cleyn(?) -Hayls. etc

Box 2 -Hayls: Bertie, Noel, Chaworth etc -Hayls: Poulett Family -Russell & Style of -Souch. Des Granges. De Neve. Carleton. Mongrammis PM -IW/IWF. Marloe: Greenhall: Bylis, Browman -T. Leigh. Hunt. Bellish. De Leyer. Taylor (Oxford) -Weesop -Dobson: ½ - ¾ length -Dobson: full-lengths. Groups -Dobson: busts -Dobson: Self-portraits -Dobson: papers -Dobson: Subject pictures -Dobson: After etc. Comparative -Walker: Cromwell. Lambert -Walker: After etc -Greenhill -Greenhill drawings -Gennari -Soest I -Soest II -Borsselaer -Wright. Royal, Legal, Military, Chieftains

Box 3 -Wright I -Wright II -Wright III -Huysmans

-Huysmans:Royal -Wissing etc Van der Vaart -Wissing: Royal Van der Vaart -Kersseboom -Morphy. Maubert -Riley: heads -Riley: Royal full & ¾ lengths -Closterman & sub Riley & Closterman

Box 4 -Murray -Richardson ¾ & full length -Richardson: heads & shoulders, Drawings -S. Verelst: portrait, flowers -Verelst: H., J., M., W: etc -Hawker etc -M. Beale -C. Beale: incl copies after Lely -Poelenburgh. Stalbert -Keircincx -Gipkyn. De Jongh. Bol Stalbert. Poelenburgh. Jones (?)

Manby

-Wouters. Pot etc -Steenwyck. Houckgeest x with Johnson, Belcamp etc T

Johnson

-Hoogstraeten -Hollar -Danckerts -Place -Siberechts -Barlow& comparative material -Hondius Van den Bergen . Van Aken. Tilborch. Angelis

-Schalcken -Ferguson. S. Wilson -T. Wyck -Jan Wyck: Military -Jan Wyck: Misc. comparative material

Box 5 -J. Wyck. Misc landscape. Sporting. Horses -Tangier etc (Dartmouth College) -Knyff. Stevens. Reed. Beckner -Tillemans -Streater. Colonia. Esselens. V.d.Straeten. Anderton. Norgate

etc

-Edema. Loten. Van Diest. Rousseau etc. -Craddock Collins -Gasselin. Vorsterman. Griffier. Van Gaelen (?) v.d. Haagen

(?)

-Bogdani -Monnoyer, Walton, Carnavon. La Fosse -Dunning, Smitz, Bowyer. Misc -Roestraeten. Heemskerk. Le Piper, Arnold, Eden, Misc

Genre, Groups

-Collier, Braiser, Howell, Knight, Comparative -Misc Flowers, Still Life -Pybourne. Seymour. Shaw. Ross Butler, Byng. Misc Sporting -Van de Velde. Misc Marine -Equestrian misc: Horses: Dogs: Birds: Pastoral -Wootton: Portraits & Topography incl Newmarket -Wootton: Military & Militray Portraits -Wootton: Landscape -Wootton: Sporting Animals

Box 6 -Views of Windsor. Anon. De Cort. Pugh

-Topographical. Houses etc. Harris. Smith. Lambert. Anon -Views of London -Landscape: Topography etc. -James I Arches: Early XVIIth century decoration -Gibbs. Carleton -Gentileschi. Vouet -Verrio Larroon Hende Freres -Verrio at Windsor Payments etc -Cheron. Lanscroon etc. Robinson -Laguerre -Thornhill -Pellegrini -S. Ricci, M. Ricci, Marini, Tombs etc. Bellucci. Liss. Diziani,

Damini, Amigoni

-De Witt. Tideman. Parmentier -Ashfield. Loggan. Forster. Faber. Write. Lutterell. Faithorn.

Brownover. Loggan

-Portrait. Drawings -Drawings. Misc & unknown -Drawings. Misc & unknown -Isaac Oliver -Peter Oliver -Hoskins

Box 7 -Cooper: up to c. 1660 -Cooper: after c. 1660 -Petitot. Gibson. Flatman. Dixon. Cross. Snellin. G. WP -Miniatures: Tyninghame. Ickworth. Holkham. Antony.

Badminton

-J. Z. Kneller. Boit. Richter. Arland. Lens -Miniatures. Windsor Misc

-Miniatures. Unsorted -Gorhambury. Sir Harbottle. Grimstone Gallery -Historical Portraits. Knole. Darcy & Syon -Kings Weston -John Evelyn. Bol Parker. Nanteuil etc. -Lady Anne Clifford ‘The Great Picture’ etc -Van Somer: Deene series etc -Van Somer: Royal -Van Somer -Gheeraedts: I etc -Gheeraedts: II etc -Van Doort -Peake -Peake: Royal Portraits -Near Peake: English Provincial Flat -Jacobean. Near de Critz Gheeraerdts etc

Box 8 -Geldorp. Gerbier. Locky -De Critz etc. James I Anne of Denmark -De Critz etc. Cecil family etc. -Suffolk & Berkshire series -Larkin? Style of -Jacobean: full-lengths. Misc -Jacobean: female. F.l. serious mood etc -Jacobean: misc unsorted I -Jacobean: misc unsorted II -Jacobean: misc unsorted III -Jacobean: unsorted misc -Jacobean: Netherlandish & more modern -Veres captains -English: Anglo-Netherlands c. 1625-40

-?Anglo-Netherlands c. 1620-1640 -?English Provincial etc. c.1625-1640 -Unknown. C.1640-1660 I -Wharton family (misc) -Unknown c.1640-1660 II

Box 9 -Unknown c. 1640-1660 III: & more ambitious -Unknown: English: Anglo-Netherlands c.1625-1650 -Colone: x Early XVII c. Scottish -Jamesone -Vignion. DuBois. Browne. Claret. Hill. Lilly. Scheffer -Tilson. Hysing -Reader (WR) Baker. Cole. La Haye -Sonmans. Killigrew. Crake. Anderton. Sadler.Trabute. Hetlje.

De Meyer. Cummins.B.H.

-King. M.Dixon. Morland. Graves. Howard: Phillips -De Castro. Stephenson. Tuer De Ryck. De Koning. De Mele.

Schmutz. Bird

-Gandy. Lenthall. Fayrma. Wollaston. CJ. Sykes. Garrison -Gouge. Short. Byng. Pa(w)ling. Meheux. J.H.A. -Gibson -Early Restoration -Misc 1660-85 to be sorted -Misc 1660-85 to be sorted -Frenchified (?): recognizable -Misc late Stuart I -Misc late Stuart II -Misc late Stuart III

Box 10 -Misc late Stuart IV -Misc late Stuart V -J & C. D’Agar etc

-Jervas -Seeman -J.D.G. Scougall. Unsorted late Scottish -Waitt -Medina -Aikman -Schuneman. Alexander. W.R.Smith. Ross. Minor Scottish -Vanderbank. Soldi -Highmore. Hudson. Phillips. Van Loo -Smibert. Denner. Van Bleek. Shalk.Ellys. Whood. De Nune.

Mosman. Davison. Maungand. Hormenas. Van Ost. Hamilton

Box 11 -Mytens. Charles I. Queen -Mytens: up to c.1625 -Mytens: after c.1625 -Van Dyck catalogue Letters Reviews -James I Henry, Prince of Wales -Charles I Equestrian a la Chasse -Charles I Equestrian a la Chasse etc copies -Charles I & Henrietta Maria. Great Piece. Kremsier -Charles I Robes of State. Henrietta Maria Robes of State

[including Potsdam]

-Charles I & Knights of the Garter -Charles I -Charles I (copies) -Henrietta Maria -Henrietta Maria (copies) -Charles Prince of Wales -Royal Children -Royal Children copies

Box 12 -Palatine Princes

-Mary, Princess, William Prince of Orange -Andromeda -Unknown Men -Unknown Women -Hopton -Drawings -Leemput etc. copies -Van Dyck: Studio – eg Thanet. Coke -Van Dyck: Studio Imitation etc -Van Dyck. Followers etc -Early XVIth C -Van Dyck later impact of -Custodis -Late XVIth – Early XVIIth C At end of box there is a red clip board folder called Van Dyck

and loose letters and photos

Box 13 -Dutch misc unsorted -Luttichuys -Houckgeest. Moreelse. Nason. J. Mytens. Maes. Netscher.

De Witt

-Honthorst -Mierevelt -Mierevelt. Honthorst: Craven -Sculpture -Medals: Engraving -Misc unimportant but check -Rubens – c.1620 -Glynde – sketch -Good Government -Unlabelled file

-Whole layout-out -Union of Crowns -Venetian Ceilings etc. -Rubens c. 1620-1640 -Apotheosis of James I -Rubens: Whitehall ceiling old photos -Putti -Ovals in corners

Box 14 -Loose Van Dyck photos -Van Balen, Jan Bruegel etrc -Janssens. Jordaens -De Vos -Boeckhorst. Willeboirts -Misc foreign? Pre 1660 -Photographs misc foreign -Winchester 1955 -Minor Flemish XVII cent -French XVIIth c. -Largilliere -Voet – Elle etc -Trevisani. David Lut. Masucci. Nazari. Grisoni. Casali. Dupra.

Procaccini. Rosalba

-Italain XVIIth c -Maratta, Rosa. Stanzione. Dolci (end of Drawer)

Box 15 Van Dyck -Van Dyck: Self-portrait (beginning of drawer) -Notes etc Antwerp -Historical Background, Netherlands -General Points -Figs-comp material -St Paul’s church Antwerp

-Decius Mus -Rubens – Van Dyck: Apostles etc -Horse/Landscape Horse: Christ Church -Van Dyck. First Flemish Period Subjects & Studies -Van Dyck: Scipio Venus Adonis -Van Dyck: St Martin -St Sebastian -Van Dyck: First Flemish period portraits -Van Dyck: Italian Period Subjects -Van Dyck: Italian Period Portraits -Van Dyck: Abercorn portrait -Van Dyck: 2nd Flemish Portraits -St George -Van Dyck 1634/5

16 Van Dyck -Van Dyck: 2nd Flemish Religious -Van Dyck: 2nd Flemish Subjects (non-religious) -Beatrice de Cusance -Van Dyck: Grisailles. Iconography -Iconography Boughton -Nassau. Siegen Group -Van Dyck Related to Flemish Periods (end of drawer) -Infants Christ & Baptist -Crucifixion & Angels (beginning of drawer) -Cupid & Psyche -Self-portraits & Lady Van Dyck [London] -Arundel & family -Andover/Thimbleby, Ashburnham, Borlase, Burlington -Bath -Bedford. Bristol -Bellievre.Belasyse.Belhaven

-Buckingham -Carlisle Carnarvon.Castlehaven. Chaloner -Chaworth -Cholmondeley.Clanbrassil.Cleveland.Drane.Cromwell -Dacre.Danby De la Warr.Denbigh.Derby.Devonshire

Box 17 Van Dyck -Digby -Exeter -Goodwin.Goring/Newport. Grandison -Haddington. Hamilton. Hanmer. Henderson. Huntly -Herbert. Holland.Hopton. Howard -Jabach. Jones. Junius. Jermyn -Killigrew. Kirke & companions. Kinnoull -Langlois. Land.Leicester. Lemon. Ly Hieton. -Manchester/Rich. Monmouth. Mennes -Middlesex. Morton -Newcastle. Newport [see also Goring] -Northumberland. Percy -Oxford. Paulet. Perth. Peterborough. Porter. Portland. Pye -Pembroke -Rich -Richmond (Duke) -Richmond Duchess

Box 18 Van Dyck/Kneller -Southampton -Strafford -Stuart -Thimbleby. Thoroughgood. Verney -Warwick. Worcester -Wharton. Wandesford (end of drawer) -Kneller: Early to c.1680 (beginning of drawer) -Kneller: Early to c. 1685

-Kneller: c.1685-1695 Male -Kneller:Royal Portraits -Kneller:The Beauties -Kneller: c 1685-95 Female -Kneller: Kit Cat Club -Kneller: c.1695-1710 Female -Kneller: c.1695-1710 Male

Box 19 Kneller/Dahl -Kneller: late works female -Kneller: late works male -Kneller:copies after unsorted -Dahl: Male. Full-length. Groups. Equestrian -Dahl: Male: ½ -3/4 length -Dahl: Female: ¾ length -Dahl: male: ½ heads & shoulders -Dahl: Female: heads & shoulders -Dahl: Female: Full-length Petworth set -Dahl: Miscellaneous -Dahl: subsidiary. Unsorted Hysing etc.

Material on Lely - these files are with Diana Dethloff, Academic Administrator Seventeenth-century British painting and patronage, History of Art Department, University College London. On 25th July 2013 they were checked by PMC staff & placed in archive folders. Notes in italics were made during this process.

DD (previously in Box 1

-Lely etc Charles II : 1

-Lely : later works : children -Lely : later works : male h and shoulders -Lely : later works : male ¾ : loose drapery : full lengths -Lely : later works : male ¾ : armour, breastplate -Lely : male sitters c 1660-1665 -Lely : Charles II : 2 : garter full length’s etc : Rupert

-Lely : Duchess of Cleveland -Lely : engravings after -Lely : drawings -Lely : garter drawings -Lely : Kingston Lacy -Lely : Windsor beauties -Lely : Flagmen (excluding Rupert, see below) The label to

this file is water damaged but the contents appear to relate to the title.

-Lely : Prince and Princess of Orange -Lely : later works : female ¾ and full length -Lely : later works : female h and shoulders -Lely : female portraits c 1660-1665 -Lely : female portraits later 1660’s- -Green binder relating to NPG Lely exhibition 1978 -Blue folder Not found -File containing misc loose pages, & small notebook inscribed

D Lely July 18 1799 (contained in manila envelope)

DD (previously in box 2)

-Lely : subjects : comparative material

-Lely : subject pictures -Lely? studio not placed in archive folder, file too thick -Lely studio : Gaspars etc -Misc Lelyesque therefore sort with Lely studio -Clarendon Gallery : Rothes etc -Lely? copies not placed in archive folder, file too thick -Lely: Interregnum I -Lely: Interregnum II -Lely: Royal Portraits 1647

-Lely: Early Arcadian Music -Lely: Ham.Cecil.Percy.Pembroke.Sidney.Spencer. etc -Lely: Capel.Dormer etc. -Lely: Early Heads & Shoulders -Lely: Early Portraits -Lely: Groups c1660.Yorks.Cornbury’s etc. -Yellow folder Work in progress : women’s 1650s (Diana

Dethloff created this file – not part of OM Archive)

-Yellow folder Work in progress :1640s (Diana Dethloff created this file – not part of OM Archive)

-Yellow folder Work in progress : women 1650s (Diana Dethloff created this file – not part of OM Archive)

Sequence 2: Notebooks on collections and artists

Box 20 Notebooks -Oliver Millar’s notebooks I – XXIII (August 1945 – 29 November 2006)

-Oliver Millar’s index to the Journals of Collections Houses etc.

Box 21 Notebooks -Six notebooks on VanDyck -Transcription of R. North MSS on technique (BM. ADD. MS

22,950)

-Italy September 15-25 1950 I Florence, Arezzo -Italy 26 September 1950 Florence -Rome 1951 -Italy 1955 I -Italy 1955 II -Italy 1964-1998 Milan, Florence, Bologna -Genoa -Russia -Poland -USA I

-USA II -Shrewsbury MSS – Charles Duke of Shrewsbury 1700-1706

foreign tour, autograph journal in library at Boughton

-Shrewsbury MSS – Charles Duke of Shrewsbury 1700-1706 foreign tour, autograph journal in library at Boughton

-Charles Beale sketchbook – 73 sheets of drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Collection

-Spain I -Spain II -Vienna -Abroad I -Abroad II -Abroad III -Abroad IV -France -France, Belgium -Holland I -Holland II -US 1996: Berlin Dresden 1997: Switzerland: Italy: US 1997:

Italy 1998

-S – Sales from 1984 -Small manilla folder with clipped notes

Box 22 Notebooks -OUP I – loose manuscript in a binding -Richard Symonds – ring binder -17th century notes for O.U.P volume [General in the main] –

ring binder of notes

-Van Dyck exhibition NPG - reviews and correspondence, loose in folder

-A-C – artist notes in notebook -D-H - artist notes in notebook

-J-N - artist notes in notebook -O-S - artist notes in notebook -T-Z - artist notes in notebook -Index of artist in journals I –this covers all the notebooks not

just the artist notebooks

Sequence 3: Transcripts of original archive material. These files contain transcripts of original manuscript/archive relating to or owned by the relevant collection/family.

Box 23 -Frames Hanging -Kederminster Library -Costume -Prints (NPG) Browne: Tompson -LOTHIAN: Bulwer Lytton -Ham. Antony. Audley End. Knole. Drayton -Sotheby -Claydon. Chatsworth. Bradford. Cardigan, Boughton &

Montagu

-Wharton -Melbury -Althorp & Wimbledon -Hamilton -Penshurst -Blenheim@Princess Anne & Pantell????EL -Kingston Lacy. Kings Weston -Temple Newsam. Rupert Rawlinson. Newstead -Strafford -Arundel -Leicester. Northampton. Lumley. Cotton Heads -Buckingham. Gerbier -Bristol/Hervey. Bacon. Oxmead.Cobham.Cowdray -Northumberland

-Salisbury. Burghley -Ormonde -Buckingham House -Grimsthorpe. Cholmondeley -Pembroke: Double Cube

Box 24 -Wyck, Wootton: Battle & Chase -Petitot. Bordier.Lievens.Rembrandt in England -Engraving -Stewart Charles I -Henrietta Maria. MS account -Dacre. Ashburnham Mss Invs etc -Dartmouth. Craven Walpole Stowe. -Grafton. Kent. Warwick. Oxford (travels) -Lamport. Jersey. Manchester. North. Mildmay/Fitzwaler -Badminton. Woburn. Narford -H.M.C. -Misc Papers to check -Misc Lists invos. Collecting Huntingdon Palmerston Tours -Houses etc to visit -Notes to incorporate -Rate books -Sanderson Mayerwe Strangers Elsum Salisbury -Painter Stainers -Lady Gibson. L.C. Charles II servants etc -Jacobean Documents. Links with the Netherlands Honthorst

Mytens

-De L’Isle M.S.S. Parts I, II, III (K.A.O. U1475) bound volumes

Sequence 4: Miscellaneous research material.

25 -Miscellaneous slides

26 -Miscellany of photos – many snapshots from private

collections taken by salerooms. Letters. All taken out of one box compiled by Diana Dethloff

27 -Miscellaneous material

28 -Miscellaneous material including publications and slides

29 -Annotated books

Sequence 5: Research material compiled by Millar in the course of research on his Van Dyck catalogue (published 2004)

30 -Historical Background – Leicester, Ormond, Wentworth, Nicholas, Cal. S.P. Ven., Carte, Birch, Warwick etc., D’Estes; Later Topographical – Neale, etc.

-Jewels – Dress -Loan Exhibitions -Setting – Accessories – Flowers – Dress -Collections – Sales -Last Days France etc. -The Bath; Gout etc. -Documentary References -Events, Personalities etc.; Masques -Wills -Sources – Critical etc. incl. Waagen etc. -Hollstein -Literature inc. Masques – Emblems -Hollar -Cust. LB in Ribenianum: Larsen. Guiffrey. Witt boxes

31 Van Dyck

31 Van Dyck -Notes to retain for future use incl. Lit. & Hist. refs Chronology -Van Dyck – remaining problems: things to see -Chronology -Dealt with, but retain

-General Points for Preface etc. -Done

32 Draft Prelims – Bibliography – Suggested colour

-loose material

-Prelims -Bibliography – abbreviations, method, conventions

33 Subject, Sitters A-Z -Loose material

34 Van Dyck O.M. M.S. Entries

-Loose material

35 Van Dyck bulletins etc

-publications including: The Art Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, offprint from Art the Ape of Nature (x2), The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin,Dec 1963, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (x5), Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen (x2), Zeitschrisft fur Kunstgeschichte

36 Top copy as given to S.S.

-loose material

37 Nora, Susan, Horst – misc. letters etc.

-USA travel NB This box is closed to the public

-Travel everywhere -Misc. letters

38 Van Dyck – Misc. articles, offprints, etc.

-loose material

-publications

39 Will of Van Dyck, Gerbier trans, Borsch-Supan Bulletins

-Howarth/Gerbier – Van Dyck’s arrival 1620

-loose material

-Misc. articles, reviews -P.R.O. documents – CHECKED = OK 20.2.2013 -Turin MSS

40 Van Dyck original sheets for ind. Works & notes from sales and from my journals

-loose material

MATERIAL REMOVED FROM BOOKS IN THE OLIVER MILLAR ARCHIVE WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN CATALOGUED AS PART OF THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR

STUDIES IN BRITISH ART LIBRARY COLLECTION

Sequence 6: Material removed from books that have now been catalogued as part of the PMC Library collection.

41 -Notes, written by Oliver Millar, concerning the book Sir Constantine Huygens and Britain, 1596-1687 : a pattern of cultural exchange. Vol. 1 : 1596-1619

Removed from B17541 (2007.0585) p144/5

Undated 1 handwritten document

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, concerning the book The Third Earl of Shaftesbury: a study in Eighteenth Century Literary theory, by R.L. Brett

Removed from B17543 (2007.0587), pp88/89

Undated 2 handwritten documents

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on Sotheby’s sale 27 June 1966 (310) Manuscript of Sir William Blathwayt at Dyrham

Removed from B17551 (2007.0595) p26/27


-Material concerning the pictures at Blenheim Palace Includes: - photocopies of catalogue entries from Catalogue raisonne, or, A list of the pictures in Blenheim Palace, with occasional remarks and

Undated 4 photocopies and 2 word-processed documents

illustrative notes by George Scharf - draft catalogue entries of portraits in the Blenheim collection from another catalogue Removed from B17584 (2007.0628)

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on pictures viewed at Hardwick Hall

Removed from B17596 (2007.0640)

Undated 2 handwritten documents

-Letter written by Jeremy [Wood] to Oliver Millar concerning Wood’s article about Orazio Gentileschi in London

Letter mentions, in particular, problems with a document published in Appendix 5 which records the payment of a stretcher for Van Dyck’s ‘greate peece’ before his arrival in England. Removed from B17604 (2007.0648)

30 July 2001

1 handwritten letter

-Postcard featuring exterior view of Broughton Castle Entitled Broughton Castle, near Banbury Removed from B17619

Undated 1 postcard

(2007.0063)

-Correspondence concerning Zoffany Includes: -letter written by Ronald Paulson to Oliver Millar concerning Paulson’s review of the Mellon series, with special emphasis on Millar’s Zoffany text -letter written by Mary , University College London, to Oliver Millar thanking him for his help with ‘so many Zoffany problems’ Removed from B17631 (2007.0675)

1 April and 15 October 1975

2 handwritten letters

-Photocopy of an article entitled Reply to W B Coley by John B Shipley from Eighteenth-century Studies II:2 Spring 1969

Removed from B17634 (2007.0678)

1969 5 photocopied pages

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on the publication Studien zum weiblichen Rollenporträt in England von Anthonis van Dyck bis Joshua Reynolds, by Stephanie Goda Tasch

Removed from B17695 (2007.0739)

undated 1 handwritten document

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on the publication La vie, les ouvrages et les élèves de Van Dyck : manuscrit inédit des Archives du Louvre par un auteur anonyme, by Erik Larsen

Removed from B17697 (2007.0741) p. 50/51


-Letter written by Christopher White to Oliver Millar Letter mentions, in 20 October 1 letter, 2

concerning his work on the V&A catalogue of Dutch and Flemish drawings

particular, a drawing in the V&A Collection that White believes is second Antwerp period Van Dyck and connected to a painting reproduced in Van Dyck: des Meister Gemälde in 537 abbildung, by Schaeffer, p484. Also includes photocopies of two images related to White’s query. Removed from B17706 (2007.0750), p484

2006 photocopied images

-Note, written by Oliver Millar, on the publication Anton van Dyck: Italienisches Skizzenbuch, by Gert Adriani

Removed from B17708 (2007.0752)


-Cutting from Acceptance in Lieu Report, 2005/06, published by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council

Cutting features a painting by Gennari: Portrait of Elizabeth Murray, Duchess of Lauderdale. Removed from B17711 (2007.0754)

c1996 1 cutting

-Letter written by Anthony Crofton to Oliver Millar donating Removed from B17751 4 October 1 handwritten

a copy of A catalogue of the pictures at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire

(2007.0795) 1954 letter

-Two postcards featuring interior views of Southside House, Wimbledon Common, London

Postcards entitled: -The dining room as decorated in 1687 by Robert Pennington -The bedroom prepared for the Prince of Wales in 1750 Removed from B17768 (2007.0812)

Undated 2 postcards

-Five postcards featuring interior and exterior views of Hinchingbrooke

Postcards entitled: -Hinchingbrooke from the South West -Hinchingbrooke South side -Rear of the Tudor Domestic Wing, Hinchingbrooke - The Dining Room, Hinchingbrooke, with the old oak Refectory table from the nunnery and Cromwellian period chairs -The Library, Hinchingbrooke, with carving by Charles II’s

Undated 5 postcards

master joiner, Kennard Removed from B17774 (2007.0818)

-Notes, written by Delia Dawnay, entitled Northants Books 12.7.53

Removed from B17781 (2007.0825)

12 July 1953

5 handwritten pages

-Three postcards featuring interior and exterior views of Crathes Castle

Postcards entitled: - Crathes Castle, Banchory, Kincardineshire -Crathes Castle, the gallery - Tower room showing horn of Leys 1323, Crathes Castle Removed from B17785 (2007.0829)

Undated 3 postcards

-Two postcards featuring interior and exterior views of the House of Binns

Postcards entitled: - House of the Binns, West Lothian; -The dining Room at The House of the Binns, near Linlithgow Removed from B17798 (2007.0842)

Undated 2 postcards

-Notes, written by Delia Dawney, on pictures at Hatfield House

Also includes two postcards of Hatfield

undated 2 handwritten documents

House entitled: -the Marble Hall -the Grand Staircase Removed from B17807 (2007.0851)

and 2 postcards

-Notes, written by Delia Dawney, on pictures at Aston Hall Removed from B17820 (2007.0864)


-Letter written by James M-C [Methuen-Cambpell] to Oliver Millar donating a guidebook of Corsham Court

Removed from B17844 (2007.0888)

4 May 2006

1 handwritten letter

-Six postcards featuring interior and exterior views of Levens Hall

Postcards entitled: - Levens Hall, Westmorland,the Gardens -Levens Hall, the Drawing Room; -Levens Hall, the Garden; - Levens Hall, the Dining Room; -Levens Hall, the Hall; -Levens Hall, the Gardens Removed from B17837 (2007.0881)

Undated 6 postcards

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on the publication The voyage of Italy: or, A compleat journey through Italy : In two parts by Richard Lassels

Removed from B17847 (2007.0891)


-Material concerning Jonathan Richardson’s Essay on the theory of Painting (1715)

Includes: - letter written by George Watson to Oliver Millar -photocopy of the title page of an Essay on the theory of painting; - offprint of the article Joshua Reynolds’s copy of Richardson by George Watson Removed from B17863 (2007.0906)

C1990 1 typewritten document, 1 photocopy, 1 offprint

-Correspondence concerning The Loseley manuscripts by A J Kempe

Includes: -a postcard written by Cunliffe to Capt G S Cary -a note written by GSC concerning The Loseley manuscript,s by A J Kempe Removed from B17866 (2007.0909)

C1905 1 postcard and 1 handwritten note

-Notes, written by Oliver Millar, on the publication Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford

Removed from B17868 (2007.0911)


-Material relating to Paintings and drawings by Van Dyck, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1960

Includes: -4 Photographs of the hang of the exhibition -Letter from Alastair Smart, Department of Fine Art, University of Nottingham to Oliver Millar, 14 June 1960 concerning Duchess of Buckingham by Van Dyck and the success of the exhibition -Newspaper cutting from The Times entitled Van Dyck – Ennobler of Royalty, 29 February 1960 -Newspaper cutting from The Listener entitled Van Dyck at Nottingham, 10 March 1960 Removed from B19631 (2009.0329)

1960 4 black and white photographs 1 typewritten letter 2 newspaper cuttings

-Material relating to A selection of pictures from private collections shown in the Moot Hall, Colchester, Essex, Colchester Festival of Britain 1951

Includes: -Letter from John Bensusan-Butt, Colchester to Oliver Millar concerning the exhibition

1pp handwritten letter 2 black and white photographs

-Photograph of item 4 (Sir Edward Bullock, Kt) -Photograph of item 8 (Unknown man aged 36, 1637) Removed from B19632 (2009.0330)

-Postcards entitled Chiswick House, the blue velvet room and Chiswick house, a drawing by William Kent of the Villa from the South East

Removed from B19638 (2009.0336)

Undated 2 postcards

-Postcards entitled Stourhead, Wiltshire, The East Front and Stourhead, Wiltshire, The Picture Gallery

Removed from B19635 (2009.0333)

Undated 2 postcards

-Research notes in Delia Millar’s hand relating to The Borghese Gallery in Rome by Paola della Pergola, 1951

Removed from B19642 (2009.0340)

Undated 1 p of handwritten notes

-Material relating to Lely and the Stuart portrait painters C H Collins Baker, 2 vols, 1912

Includes: -Typewitten list Annotations made by C H Collins Baker in his copy of Lely and the Stuart Portrait painters, v1 and v2 -Research notes on individual artists removed from v. 1 Removed from B19643 (2009.0341) and B19644 (2009.0342)

Undated 13pp typewritten list 1 card handwritten notes

-Items relating to interleaved copy of The age of Charles II Royal Academy of Arts, 1960-1 PMC Library Copy: B07990 (75.786)

Includes: -Letters from Margaret (unknown surname), Courtauld Institute, to Millar concerning her views of the exhibition ‘The Age of Charles II’ at the Royal Academy -Reviews of the exhibition published in the Times -Brief notes written by Millar, removed from the text

1p typewritten letter 1p typewritten letter 2 press-cuttings 3 small handwritten notes

-Items relating to John Michael Wright, the king’s painter by Sara Stevenson and Duncan Thomson, 1982 PMC Library Copy: B07244 82.2434

Includes: -Handwritten note by Millar -Annotated copy of ‘A room in John Michael Wright’s house in Covent Garden’

1p handwritten note 1p annotated off-print

42 -Material relating to Van Dyck a Genova : grande pittura e collezionismo by Susan J Barnes, 1997 B03049 (97.8909)

Includes: -Notes written by Oliver Millar on the publication - 6 colour photographs in a folder entitled Francia Carboni - Exhibition flyer

1997 5 pp of handwritten notes 6 colour photographs in a folder 1 published

- Letter from Caroline [Van Eyk], Burlington Magazine to Oliver Millar concerning Oliver Millar’s review of the catalogue, 14 May 1997 -Offprint of Oliver Millar’s review of the catalogue from Burlington Magazine

flyer 1 handwritten letter 1 offprint of article

-Material relating to Van Dyck : a complete catalogue of the paintings by Susan J Barnes et al, 2004 B13551 (2004.0186)

Includes: -Letter from Dr Alex Wengraf to Oliver Millar concerning a painting believed to be by Van Dyck -Transparency of a painting believed to be by Van Dyck -page from a publication concerning Headfort House -Postcard entitled Mechelen St Jan Baptist en St Jan Evangelist-Kerk - Photocopied pages from Important old master paintings, New York, Thursday January 27 2005, lot 139 Jan van

Undated 1 typewritten letter 1 colour transparency 1 published page 1 colour postcard 3 photocopied pp

Malderen attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck and Studio

-Item relating to Sir Godfrey Kneller and the English Baroque portrait by J Douglas Stewart, 1983 B03477 (84.3091)

Includes: -Polaroid photograph of portrait of a man Annotated on the back ‘signed and dated 1722’

Undated 1 polaroid photograph

-Material relating to Hardwick Hall / Mark Girouard, National Trust, 1989 B07399 (92.7492)

Includes: -Extract from Sotheby’s catalogue 14 March 1985, lot 164 The long gallery, Hardwick Hall by David Cox -Annotated photocopies of pages from the book, p. 7, 40-41, 50, 60, 62-68, 75-78, 80

1985-1989 2 printed pp 17 annotated photocopied pp

-Material relating to 1989 edition of Chirk Castle, Clwyd, National Trust, 1995 B09853 (X)

Includes: -colour photograph annotated ‘Horham Hall’ -Letter from Alastair [Laing], London, to Oliver Millar concerning a proposed visit to Chirk Castle, Erddig and Powis

1989 1 colour photograph 2 pp handwritten letter 4 pp article

Castle and other matters, 1 July 1989 -Offprint of article Changelings at Chirk Castle by Alastair Laing, Country Life, June 8 1989 annotated by the author

-Material relating to Rubens : the Whitehall ceiling by Oliver Millar, 1958 B11811 (05.01.2001)

Includes: -Typewritten hand annotated letter from David Howarth, Cambridge, to Oliver Millar, 12 September 1976, concerning Inigo Jones, Charles I, and Rubens -Typewritten hand annotated letter from Julius S Held, Vermont, to Oliver Millar, 16 August 1983, concerning the arrangement of the Banqueting House ceiling - Black and white photograph of Whitehall ceiling annotate on rear

1976-1983 2 pp letter 1 p letter 1 black and white photograph

-Item relating to Sherborne Castle by Rosemary March, 1979 B07592 (X)

Includes: -Letter from Mrs P A Smith, Archivist, Sherborne Castle Estates to Oliver Millar, 24 May 1994, concerning portraits at Sherborne Castle

1994 1 typewritten letter

-Material relating to The Suffolk collection : catalogue of paintings, Ranger’s House, [1974], B08501 (75.701)

Includes: -Ranger’s House : the Suffolk collection by Oliver Millar, reprinted from Museums Journal , v. 75, no. 2, September 1975, annotated -Handwritten notes for a speech to open an exhibition on Larkin? -Letter from Sheila O’Connell, Assistant Curator, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, to Oliver Millar, asking him to dinner after the opening of the Larkin exhibition, 21 July 1989 -List of names of people attending Larkin exhibition opening? -William Larkin and the

1975-1989

1 magazine cutting 5pp handwritten notes 1p typewritten letter 1p typewritten list 1 exhibition catalogue

3rd Earl of Dorset : a portrait in focus by Sheila O’Connell, 1989, annotated by Oliver Millar

-Item relating to Welford Park, September 1980, B11349 (11.05.2000)

Includes: -Family tree of owners of Welford Park

Undated 1 family tree

-Item relates to Highclere Castle, Norman Hudson & Co, 1988 B11244 (23.02.2000)

Includes: -Notes on Highclere Castle made by Oliver Millar

Undated 8pp of handwritten notes

-Material relating to Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, West Cumbria B11369 (18.05.2000)

Includes: -Letters from Richard Wilkin & Terry Empson, both of the Heritage Conservation Trust, to Oliver Millar, concerning the conservation of pictures at Muncaster Castle -Four postcards entitled: The great hall at Muncaster Castle; Thomas Skelton, ‘the late fool of Muncaster’; The drawing room, Muncaster Castle,; Dining room at Muncaster Castle

1996-1997 4 colour postcards 1p typewritten letter 2pp typewritten letter Photocopied typewritten list (P 150-189) 1p photocopied letter 1p typewritten letter

-List of pictures in Muncaster collection - Copes of correspondence (two letters) between David Hall, Administrator, Raby Castle; and Richard Wilkin, Heritage Conservation Trust, concerning conservation of a painting of Sir John Finch by Van Dyck

-Items relating to Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, National Trust, 1988 B07522 (X)

Includes: -Letter from The Marquess of Downshire, Clifton Castle, Ripon to Oliver Millar, 27 April 1994, concerning the Van Dyck painting of The Countess of Bedford and a note relating to p. 72

1994 1 typewritten letter 1 handwritten note

-Item relating to Van Dyck by Christopher Brown, 1982 B03048 (82.02440)

Includes: -Newspaper cutting from Times Literary Supplement: Capturing the celebrities, review of Brown’s book written by Millar

25 march 1983

1 newspaper cutting

-Items relating to Mrs Mary Beale, paintress, 1633-1699 by Chris Reeve, 1994 B06499 (93.7820)

Includes: - Letter and postcard from Chris Reeve, Keeper of Fine and Decorative Arts, St Edmundsbury Borough Council to Oliver Millar concerning the Mary Beale exhibition at Manor House Museum

17 May 1994

1 typewritten letter 1 colour postcard

-Material relating to William Dobson, 1611-46 by Malcolm Rogers, 1983 B07680 92.7199

Includes: -Admission card for the exhibition -Photocopy of review of book by J Douglas Stewart from RACAR, XIV, 1987 -Exhibition review from Burlington Magazine, v 126, n 970, January 1984 -Research notes

1983-1987 1 admission card 3pp photocopy of book review 3pp exhibition review 7pp handwritten notes

-Items relating to The age of Charles I : painting in England 1620-1649 by Oliver Millar, 1972 B08140 (X)

Includes: -Letters from Kenneth Clark, Sidney Sabin, Margaret Toynbee and Ronald [Parkinson?], to Oliver Millar, praising the exhibition -Letter from Lord Exeter, Burghley House, 20

1972-1973 1p typewritten letter 1p telegram 1p typewritten letter 1p typewritten

November 1972 to Oliver Millar concerning the exhibition and other pictures -Letter from Martin Butlin, Keeper of the British collections, Tate Gallery, to Oliver Millar, 25 January 1973 concerning the exhibition -2 lists of accompanying lectures -1 handlist of exhibits - Letter from Hugh [Trevor-Roper] Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, to Oliver Millar, 30 November 1972, praising the exhibition and mentioning Sir Theodore de Mayerne -Press release for the exhibition, 26 October 1972

letter 2pp handwritten letter 1p handwritten letter 1 printed handist 1p printed handlist (x2) 1p handwritten letter 3 p press release

-Items found in Van Dyck - a loan exhibition of pictures and sketches principally from private collections..., Thos Agnew and Sons, 1968, B08648 (X)

Includes: -Photocopy of letter from Naomi Tarrant, Curator of Costume &

1968-1989 1 photocopied letter 1 newspaper

Textiles, Royal Museum of Scotland to Mrs J Burdett, Assistant Director, National Heritage Memorial Fund, 13 March 1989 concerning Mortlake Tapestry : Perseus & Andromeda, research note on back in Oliver Millar’s hand -Newspaper cutting How Van Dyck came to ennoble an epoch of English history by Gregory Martin, 1968 enclosed in letter -Research note on plate 40/41

cutting 1 handwritten note

-Items relating to Exhibition of pictures by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641, Fermoy Art Gallery, 1963 B16650 2004.0531

Includes: -Letter from Sir Reginald Savory, Guildford to Oliver Millar, 30 July 1963, concerning a possible portrait of Marquis de Barail -Letter from Geoffrey [Agnew], Managing Director, Thos. Agnew and Sons, to Oliver

1963 2 typewritten letters

Millar, 30 July 1963 conerning pictures in the catalogue

-Items relating to Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver by Graham Reynolds, 1947 B06786 80.1850

Includes: -2 p of notes -2 newspaper cuttings, one dated 1948

1948 2 p of handwritten notes 2 small newspaper cuttings

43 -Card index to journal articles (stored in soap box)

44 -One large green box of black and white photos labeled Misc English XVIII century. Reynolds. Gainsborough. Hogarth. Ramsay

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