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A fact from Welbore Ellis Agar appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that in 1806 a planned auction of the famous art collection of Welbore Ellis Agar was abandoned when the whole collection, including works by
Velazquez,
Poussin,
Lorrain,
Murillo,
Guido Reni, and
Rubens(example pictured), was spectacularly bought by
Earl Grosvenor? Source: Rebecca Lyons, "Selling the collection of Welbore Ellis Agar" in Susanna Avery-Quash, Christian Huemer, eds., London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 (Getty Publications, 6 August 2019),
p. 174, and
p. 182 for the collection being famous.
ALT1: ... that the "Chevalier Egard" who appears in the Memoirs of
Giacomo Casanova has been identified as his friend the art collector Welbore Ellis Agar? Source:
Horace Bleackley, Casanova in England: Being the Account of the Visit to London in 1763-4 (1925), pp. viii, 166: “a rich and jovial libertine, designated in the various editions of the Mémoires as Sir Edgar, Chevalier Egard, or simply Egard. The real name of this individual was Welbore Ellis Agar.”
Hi
Moonraker, review follows: article created 26 July and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of sources I could access; a QPQ has been carried out; hooks are interesting enough for me (I prefer ALT0) and mentioned in the article. My only outstanding query is whether you could confirm if there is a source for the "spectacular" nature of the purchase, I couldn't find similar wording on pages 174 or 182 of Lyons (but may very well have missed it), though that so much is written about it implies that it was unusual. Thanks -
Dumelow (
talk)
07:25, 28 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Dumelow, thanks for the review. I am not sure if that word is used in a source or was parachuted in by me, for the sudden sale of 120 old masters, baffling the dealers of the old world. I also can’t trace it, and as it troubles you I am striking it out.
Moonraker (
talk)
07:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Moonraker: If the image is to be used on DYK, the image will require a US public domain tag in order to be properly licenced. A list of tags can be
found here. My guess is that this image would use {{PD-US-expired}} or {{PD-1996}}. Please ping me if you have any questions.
Z1720 (
talk)
15:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Welbore Ellis Agar appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that in 1806 a planned auction of the famous art collection of Welbore Ellis Agar was abandoned when the whole collection, including works by
Velazquez,
Poussin,
Lorrain,
Murillo,
Guido Reni, and
Rubens(example pictured), was spectacularly bought by
Earl Grosvenor? Source: Rebecca Lyons, "Selling the collection of Welbore Ellis Agar" in Susanna Avery-Quash, Christian Huemer, eds., London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 (Getty Publications, 6 August 2019),
p. 174, and
p. 182 for the collection being famous.
ALT1: ... that the "Chevalier Egard" who appears in the Memoirs of
Giacomo Casanova has been identified as his friend the art collector Welbore Ellis Agar? Source:
Horace Bleackley, Casanova in England: Being the Account of the Visit to London in 1763-4 (1925), pp. viii, 166: “a rich and jovial libertine, designated in the various editions of the Mémoires as Sir Edgar, Chevalier Egard, or simply Egard. The real name of this individual was Welbore Ellis Agar.”
Hi
Moonraker, review follows: article created 26 July and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of sources I could access; a QPQ has been carried out; hooks are interesting enough for me (I prefer ALT0) and mentioned in the article. My only outstanding query is whether you could confirm if there is a source for the "spectacular" nature of the purchase, I couldn't find similar wording on pages 174 or 182 of Lyons (but may very well have missed it), though that so much is written about it implies that it was unusual. Thanks -
Dumelow (
talk)
07:25, 28 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Dumelow, thanks for the review. I am not sure if that word is used in a source or was parachuted in by me, for the sudden sale of 120 old masters, baffling the dealers of the old world. I also can’t trace it, and as it troubles you I am striking it out.
Moonraker (
talk)
07:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Moonraker: If the image is to be used on DYK, the image will require a US public domain tag in order to be properly licenced. A list of tags can be
found here. My guess is that this image would use {{PD-US-expired}} or {{PD-1996}}. Please ping me if you have any questions.
Z1720 (
talk)
15:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply