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Brinsley Ford (Richard Brinsley Ford) was born on 10 June, 1908 in Petworth, Sussex, England, is a British art historian. Discover Brinsley Ford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Richard Brinsley Ford
Occupation Art historian and collector
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 10 June 1908
Birthday 10 June
Birthplace Petworth, Sussex, England
Date of death 4 May, 1999
Died Place London, England
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1701

A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, written by John Ingamells was published in 1997.

Ford's archive on British and Irish travellers to Italy, from which the Dictionary was written, is in the Paul Mellon Centre's archive for public consultation.

The archive includes research notes, correspondence, transcriptions and copies of original sources, photocopies of published material, publications and photographs.

The main sequence of material is reference material in an alphabetical run of British and Irish travellers that includes artists, antiquaries, collectors and the nobility.

1908

Sir Richard Brinsley Ford (10 June 1908 – 4 May 1999) was a British art historian, scholar, and collector.

He inherited a large collection of art from his family and was himself an avid collector.

Richard Brinsley Ford was born in 1908 in Petworth, Sussex to Captain Richard Ford (1860–1940) and Rosamund Isabel Ramsden (1872–1911).

1917

His father was an officer for the British Army, who inherited in 1917 a large art collection that had been assembled by his great great grandfather, Richard Ford (1758–1806) and his maternal great-grandfather, Benjamin Booth.

Gustav Waagen describes the collection in Treasures of Art in Great Britain. Richard Ford, his great grandfather, wrote travel books on Spain.

The Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an ancestor.

Ford attended Eton College.

1927

In 1927 Ford joined the National Art Collections Fund.

His maternal grandmother left him a legacy two years later with which Ford was able to begin collecting art, including the works of Fuseli, Michelangelo, Ingres, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Henry Moore.

He met art connoisseur James Byam Shaw and artist Charles Barrow Prescott when he joined the Burlington Fine Arts Club.

1930

He then studied modern history at Trinity College, Oxford and graduated in 1930.

1936

A drawing that he purchased in 1936 was sold by his estate for $12 million in 2000.

Ford was the director of the Burlington Magazine, president of Walpole Society and chaired the National Art Collections Fund.

During World War II he was a Troop Sergeant-Major in the Royal Artillery and then served in the military intelligence organisation, MI9.

1937

In 1937 Ford married a distant cousin, Joan Mary Vyvyan who was born in 1910.

The couple had one daughter and two sons.

1939

In 1939 he published a scholarly article in the Burlington Magazine of portrait drawings made by Ingres.

In 1939, before World War II began, Ford became Troop Sergeant-Major in the Royal Artillery of the British Army.

1940

His father died in 1940 and the following year he took possession of his father's art collection.

1941

He was transferred to MI9 military intelligence in 1941 and later headed the Brussels office.

Ford amassed an art collection that was held at his house at Wyndham Place.

He added works by Batoni, Cozza, Cavallino, creating a collection of Italian seicento and settecento works.

1950

Interested in men who had made the grand tour to Italy, Ford began accumulating information for a dictionary in the 1950s.

1951

In 1951 he published The Drawings of Richard Wilson.

During the war years the Burlington Magazine floundered but Ford rallied support and himself provided financial assistance to the journal.

In its tribute to him following his death, the magazine wrote that he was "the principal engineers of this Magazine's survival in the lean years that followed World War II."

1952

In 1952 became its director.

1954

In 1954 he became a trustee of the National Gallery.

1974

He became a member of the National Art Collections Fund executive committee in 1974 and its chair in 1975.

Under his leadership more than 200 works of art were saved and National Trust properties received art work.

He organised an exhibition, "Richard Ford in Spain", lent works and assisted Denys Sutton in the development of the exhibition catalog.

1980

He was chairman until 1980.

1984

In 1984, Ford was knighted for his work.

Two years later he became the Walpole Society president, having stepped down from the Burlington Magazine.

1998

The society published a catalog of his collection in 1998.

1999

He died of a heart attack at his home in London on 4 May 1999.