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- William Cleverly Alexander
- Also known as
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William Cleverly Alexander
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primary name: Alexander, William Cleverly
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other name: Alexander, William Cleverley
- Details
- individual; collector; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1840-1916
- Address
- Aubrey House, London
- Biography
- Collector; (his name is found spelt Cleverly and Cleverley) banker and a patron of J. M. Whistler (q.v.), especially in the 1880s; member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club and associated with the Aesthetic Movement in England. Collected oriental ceramics, his collection contained both Qing (1644-1911) porcelains as well as Song (960-1279) ceramics. Founder member of the National Art Collections Fund (q.v.) see introduction 'Monet to Freud, a National Art Collections Fund loan exhibition', Sotheby's London, January 1989; his collection passed to his two youngest daughters, Rachel and Jean Alexander (qq.v.).
- Bibliography
- R. L. Hobson, Bernard Rackham and William King ,"Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections", 1931, pp. 3-17; Stacey Pierson,"Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960", 2007, pp 70, 71, 76, 103.Roy Davids & Dominic Jellinek, "PROVENANCE: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America", 2011, pp. 45 & 46. See his entry in CARP (Chinese Art - Research into Provenance) http:// www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/admn/php/carp/search.php
