Samuel Courtauld
1936
Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), after whom the Courtauld Institute is named, belonged to a well-known family of textile manufacturers of Huguenot extraction whose fortunes had boomed with the Victorians' fondness for black mourning crape. Because he was especially interested in the French Impressionists, many of the Institute's most celebrated holdings date from the nineteenth century. — Jacqueline Banerjee
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