RA Collection: People and Organisations
The Arundel Society 1848 - 1897.
Founded in 1848 and named after the connoisseur and collector Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel and Surrey. The society was originally the idea of the lawyer Bellenden Ker and was founded at a meeting in the house of the painter Charles Eastlake PRA, attended by Eastlake, Ker, Giovanni Aubrey Bezzi, and Edmund Oldfield. The society's purpose was to promote knowledge of the art works of the old Italian, Flemish, and other European masters. Much of the work of the society consisted of publishing chromolithographs of Italian art works, especially fresco paintings, of earlier centuries and raising public awareness for the preservation of these works. The society was discontinued in 1897.
Arundel Society
Special exhibition of national portraits on loan to the South Kensington Museum, galleries and bays of the National Portrait Exhibition, 1866 ; shown in seventy-seven photographers - London: 1867
19/3190
Arundel Society
A handbook (catalogue raisonné) to the collection of chromo-lithographs from copies of important works of ancient masters, published by the Arundel Society, with historical and special artistic record and notes / by W. Noel Johnson - Manchester: 1907
11/31
The Chatsworth Raffaelles : a series of 20 autotype reproductions of the Raffaelle drawings in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. With descriptions - London: 1872
16/347
Frederic W. Maynard
Descriptive Notice Of The Drawings And Publications Of The Arundel Society, Arranged In The Order Of Their Issue / by Frederic W. Maynard, Secretary To The Arundel Society. - London:: 1869.
06/1911