Person    | Male  Born 7/5/1876  Died 1/12/1947

Samuel Courtauld

Categories: Art, Industry

Industrialist and art collector. 1932 founded The Courtauld Institute of Art. Managed the family textile firm as a director from 1908,  and as chair 1921-46.

Served twice as chair of the Trustees of the National Gallery.

This image is from The Victorian Web but is © The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. By courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery London.  We see a handsome, thoughtful man, who, despite his wealth, seems shy and reticent, and indeed he declined a peerage in 1937.

Almost certainly related to Samuel Augustine Courtauld but we cannot discover how.

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Samuel Courtauld

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