Martin Henry Colnaghi

Martin Henry Colnaghi (16 November 1821 – 1908) was a British art dealer for the London-based Colnaghi.

Portrait of Martin Colnaghi
Grave of Martin Henry Colnaghi in Highgate Cemetery

Personal life

He was born on 16 November 1821 at 23 Cockspur Street, London, and baptised Martino Enrico Luigi Gaetano.[1] He was the eldest son of Martin Colnaghi and his wife, Fanny Boyce Clarke, and a grandson of Paul Colnaghi of Pall Mall.[1]

Colnaghi had three marriages, but no children.[1]

  1. Sarah Nash
  2. Elizabeth Maxwell Howard (died 1888)
  3. On 17 October 1889, he married Amy Mary Smith, daughter of the artist George Smith

Colnaghi died on 27 June 1908, aged 86, at the Marlborough Gallery, and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[1]

Legacy

Colnaghi bequeathed four paintings to London's National Gallery, Lorenzo Lotto's Madonna and Child and Saints, Philips Wouwerman's The Gypsies, Aert van der Neer's Dawn, and Thomas Gainsborough's The Bridge.[1] He stipulated that after his wife's death, £80,000 should go to the National Gallery, to buy art, to form the Martin Colnaghi bequest.[1][2]

References
  1. Farr, Dennis (2004). "Colnaghi family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65614. Retrieved 13 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. The Telegraph Newspaper dated 20 Jan 1941 under heading "The Sale Room".
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