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Alfred de Pass

Also known as: Alfred de Pass; primary name: de Pass, Alfred Aaron
Details: individual; collector; South African; British; Male
Life dates: 1861-1952
Biography: Very wealthy collector and donor to many museums and galleries in Britain and South Africa, especially to the Royal Institution of Cornwall (Royal Cornwall Museum) in Truro, but also the BM. Third generation of an Anglo-South African shipping, sugar and guano merchants, divided his time between Falmouth and Cape Town. Retired from business in 1905 to devote himself to collecting on a wide scale in fine and decorative arts across the world, and ethnography. Only area he did not collect was manuscripts and books. Daniel (qv) was his father, while the founder of the family fortune was Aaron.
Bibliography: Lugt 108a and 2014e. Norman Nail, 'The Cornish curator and the cosmopolitan collector', typescript in BM (P&D Ci 1 13)

73 related objects

coffee-cup

Museum number: Franks.847.+ |
Cultures/periods: Qing dynastyJiaqing |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Made in:Jingdezhen |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:China

commemorative scarab

Museum number: EA49707 |
Cultures/periods: x13544 18th Dynasty |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Egypt

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.34 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.46 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.26 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.25 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.6 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.43 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.4 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.5 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.13 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.24 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.45 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.17 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.28 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.14 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.29 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.38 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.39 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.23 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.37 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.47 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.10 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.7 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.30 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1978,1216.13.1-21 |
Producer name: BIOG44101 Drawn by:George Romney |
Production date: 1780

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.1 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.2 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.48 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.36 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.8 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.35 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.40 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.42 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.11 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.15 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.20 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.33 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.19 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.32 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.41 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.22 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing

Museum number: 1997,U.65 |
Producer name: BIOG52265 After:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1640-1700

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.12 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.18 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.16 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing

Museum number: 1967,0306.1 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.21 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.31 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.44 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.9 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.27 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

drawing; album

Museum number: 1913,1231.3 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Circle/School of:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620

figure

Museum number: 1903,0714.1 |
Producer name: BIOG68368 Factory of:Derby Porcelain Factory |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Factory in:Derby (Derbyshire)

icon

Title: Icon with St Jerome |
Museum number: 1994,0501.1 |
Production date: 1400-1450 |
Production place: Painted in:CretePainted in:Venice (city)

medal

Museum number: 1923,0526.3 |
Producer name: BIOG104994 School of/style of:Giovanni Candida |
Production date: 1504 |
Production place: Made in:ItalyMade in:France

medal

Museum number: 1907,0204.1 |
Producer name: Designed by:PisanelloMade by:Pisanello |
Production date: 1438-1439 |
Production place: Made in:Ferrara (city)

medal

Museum number: 1923,0526.4 |
Producer name: BIOG113009 Attributed to:Maffeo Olivieri |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: 1923,0526.2 |
Producer name: BIOG114524 Attributed to a Follower of:Giancristoforo Romano |
Production date: 1498 |
Production place: Made in:ItalyMade in:Mantua (town)

medal

Museum number: 1923,0526.5 |
Production date: 1508 |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: 1923,0526.1 |
Producer name: Designed by:PisanelloModelled by:Pisanello |
Production date: 1442 |
Production place: Made in:Italy

milk-jug

Museum number: 1908,1109.1 |
Production date: 18thC |
Production place: Made in:Jackfield

plaque

Museum number: 1907,1227.1 |
Production date: 15thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Burma

portrait bust

Museum number: 1907,1106.1 |
Producer name: BIOG82480 Made by:Eusebio del Bastone |
Production date: 15thC |
Production place: Made in:Perugia (city)

posset-pot

Museum number: 1904,0611.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41047 Post-Medieval |
Production date: 1696 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)Made in:Bristol (England) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Newborough

pot

Museum number: 1909,0605.3 |
Producer name: BIOG181573 Factory of:Hermitage Pottery |
Cultures/periods: x41047 Post-Medieval |
Production date: 1668 |
Production place: Made in:SouthwarkMade in:Wapping

print

Title: Arundel |
Museum number: 1918,1207.2 |
Producer name: BIOG20165 Print made by:Sir Muirhead Bone |
Production date: 1908

printing-block

Museum number: 1913,1231.50 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 Print made by:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1773-1828

printing-block

Title: The Angler |
Museum number: 1913,1231.49 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 Print made by:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1773-1828

saucer

Museum number: Franks.847.+ |
Cultures/periods: x14440 Qing dynasty |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Made in:Jingdezhen |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:China

soup-tureen

Museum number: 1904,0611.3 |
Production date: 1726-1775 |
Production place: Made in:Staffordshire

tobacco-box

Museum number: 1908,1109.2

vase

Museum number: 1908,0715.2 |
Producer name: BIOG81243 Made by:Thomas Whieldon |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Made in:England