Exploration of the Paul Oppé Library and Archive
- Title
- Exploration of the Paul Oppé Library and Archive
- Description
- Adolphus Paul Oppé (22 September 1878–29 March 1957) was an art historian and collector with a particular interest in British drawings and watercolours from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His scholarly work, like his collecting, focused on figures such as John Sell Cotman, Alexander Cozens, Francis Towne, Paul and Thomas Sandby and Thomas Rowlandson, and contributed considerably to establishing their reputations as major British artists.
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- Contributor
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Type
- Online Exhibition
- Date
- Subject
- Collection Introduction
- Art and Architectural History
- Cultural History
- Period
- 16th-17th Century
- 18th-19th Century
- Geographical Area
- Britain and Ireland
- Europe
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