Thomas Moore Slade
The London dealer, Thomas Moore Slade is mentioned in a provenance rubric for Jan Baptist Weenix’s “The lost son”: “Private collection Thomas Moore Slade, London 1792-93” with the sale information: “Sale Thomas Moore Slade, London, 1792/93, Pall Mall (auction house not known), April 1793, no. 251, as J.B. Weenix (‘The debauch’)”. Together with three London bankers, Mr Morland, Mr Hammersley and the 7th Lord Kinnaird, Slade tried in 1791/1792 to acquire all 500 paintings comprising the collection of Philippe, Duke of Orléans. According to W_illiam Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting (London, 1824), vol. 1, 159 – 164, _Slade managed to negotiate the sale of Dutch and Flemish pictures and brought them back to England, selling them privately in 1793. Another source indicates that Slade and the other three London bankers bought 147 German, Dutch and Flemish paintings for 350,000 livres in 1792. These paintings were exhibited for sale in London’s West End in April 1793 at 125 Pall Mall. Links: · [about:blank https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32755/head-of-cyrus-brought-to-queen-tomyris;jsessionid=00B28D049737BC451EBE42113FF12647] · [about:blank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_Collection] · [about:blank https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/about-research/buying-collecting-and-display/the-bridgewater-collection-its-impact-on-collecting-and-display-in-britain?viewPage=2] · Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution / by W. Buchanan, Esq. (London, 1824) [online at: [about:blank https://archive.org/details/memoirspainting00buchgoog]] · Perhaps of interest for further research: A catalogue of a valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures : also, a quantity of unfinished pictures, the property of a gentleman, well known to the vertu … [online at: [about:blank https://archive.org/details/catalogueofvalua00chri_8/page/n10/mode/2up?q=Weenix]]