• Thumbnail for Charles Townley
    Charles Townley FRS (1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805) was a wealthy English country gentleman, antiquary and collector, a member of the Towneley family...
    16 KB (1,780 words) - 15:09, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Townley in His Sculpture Gallery
    Charles Townley in His Sculpture Gallery, also known as Charles Townley at His Library at no. 7 Park Street in Westminster, is an oil-on-canvas painting...
    2 KB (261 words) - 02:52, 19 July 2023
  • of the Townley Marbles Charles Townley (officer of arms) (1713–1774), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London Doody Townley (born...
    3 KB (456 words) - 02:29, 17 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Towneley family
    The Towneley or Townley family are an English family whose ancestry can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon England. Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, was...
    37 KB (4,371 words) - 19:32, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur C. Townley
    Arthur Charles Townley (December 30, 1880 – November 7, 1959) was an American political organizer best known as the founder of the National Non-Partisan...
    8 KB (904 words) - 16:28, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Discobolus
    ) The English connoisseur Charles Townley paid Jenkins £400 for the statue, which arrived at the semi-public gallery Townley commissioned in Park Street...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 17:35, 12 April 2024
  • collectors Sir Hans Sloane, Sir William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight and Charles Townley, contained items with erotic or sexually graphic images; these were...
    36 KB (3,792 words) - 10:05, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Townley Vase
    name comes from the English collector Charles Townley, who purchased it from Hamilton in 1774 for £250. Townley's collection, long on display in his London...
    3 KB (362 words) - 09:47, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Townley Caryatid
    now on the Main Stairs, replacing Townley's Discobolus. A. H. Smith, "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21...
    2 KB (225 words) - 07:58, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Townley Hadrian
    the British Museum in London. The bust is one of the Townley Marbles collected by Charles Townley (1737–1805) and sold by his heir Peregrine Edward Towneley...
    10 KB (773 words) - 07:57, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Villa of the Quintilii
    transcripts of the Hamilton-Townley correspondence, published by G. J. Hamilton and A. H. Smith, "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic...
    9 KB (965 words) - 00:27, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Barret Sr.
    Sawrey Gilpin It is probable that Charles Townley, the noted antiquary and connoisseur, was also a patron of Barret. Townley returned from the Grand Tour in...
    39 KB (5,212 words) - 12:31, 26 February 2024
  • Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France. Chairman, Rev. K. Groves, M.A., Assisted By Charles Townley, LL.D., and Mr. Luddy. pp. 8–9 Greiner & Sherman, Revised Laws of Illinois...
    147 KB (16,056 words) - 16:49, 12 April 2024
  • Sir Charles Townley (7 May 1713 – 7 June 1774) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Charles Townley was born on Tower...
    4 KB (400 words) - 22:18, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caryatid
    "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21 (1901: 306–321) p. 306 note 3. Townley inventories, where it is interpolated...
    26 KB (2,895 words) - 14:52, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ribchester Helmet
    several plates, and some other items that the antiquarian collector Charles Townley thought had religious uses. The finds were thought to have survived...
    8 KB (826 words) - 05:23, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gavin Hamilton (artist)
    works of art he recovered to his British clients, most notably to Charles Townley, to whom the painter wrote: "the most valuable acquisition a man of...
    12 KB (1,296 words) - 03:29, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Townley Antinous
    collected by 18th-century Grand Tourist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Charles Townley. A drawing of the bust attributed to Vincenzo Pacetti is also in the...
    5 KB (325 words) - 07:26, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Museum
    2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019. Tony Kitto, "The celebrated connoisseur: Charles Townley, 1737–1805" Minerva Magazine May/June 2005, in connection with a British...
    225 KB (24,736 words) - 07:12, 19 April 2024
  • brother was Charles Townley 1807-1813 Thomas Strickland Standish, né Strickland maternal nephew of Edward Towneley Standish 1813-1863 Charles Strickland...
    6 KB (253 words) - 23:47, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Queen Anne's Gate
    Maxwell’s acquisition of the Review. No. 14 was home of the antiquarian Charles Townley and later served as the office of the architectural practice T. P....
    25 KB (2,676 words) - 06:21, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Christie the Younger
    several notable contemporary scholars, such as Sir John Soane and Charles Townley, who encouraged his studies and provided him with rare antiquities...
    17 KB (1,941 words) - 12:35, 15 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Architectural model
    d'Orsay (1748–1809), and the architect Louis-François Cassas in France, Charles Townley, or Sir J. Soane in London, who turned his home into a museum, and...
    14 KB (1,603 words) - 10:38, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Museum Act 1805
    United Kingdom. It allowed the museum to acquire the Townley Collection from the estate of Charles Townley. The whole Act was repealed by section 13(5) of...
    2 KB (135 words) - 16:28, 1 December 2023
  • British Museum (found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and owned by Charles Townley) and Altes Museum. Kresilas also created the wounded men and a dying...
    8 KB (749 words) - 16:34, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Webb (writer)
    Francis Webb Francis Webb by Charles Townley, after Lemuel Francis Abbott. Born (1735-09-18)18 September 1735 Taunton Died 2 August 1815(1815-08-02) (aged 79)...
    5 KB (585 words) - 20:26, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Townley
    Rev. James Townley (6 May 1714 – 15 July 1778) was an English dramatist, the second son of Charles Townley, a merchant. Townley was born in 1714 probably...
    4 KB (501 words) - 18:40, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cista
    from https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/cista-mystica/ Charles Townley's cista mystica, (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2015, from https://www.britishmuseum...
    6 KB (672 words) - 11:39, 21 April 2024
  • at the ALA's Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas, Lotsee Patterson, Charles Townley, and Virginia Mathews formed a Task Force on American Indians within...
    19 KB (2,281 words) - 07:56, 14 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lancaster Herald
    December 1549. condemned for his submission to Robert Aske. Son of Sir Charles Townley Then named as George Edward Adams, Esq. Citations Jones, Francis (2011-07-25)...
    9 KB (430 words) - 15:21, 14 January 2024