LONDON has a wealth of museums devoted to the arts. Many are big hitters with vast collections that one can get lost in for days.But the city is also home to smaller gems which visitors can enjoy without the crowds. One of these is The Wallace Collection, situated in Hertford House on Manchester Square, only a block away from Selfridges on Oxford Street. Yet even many Londoners do not know of its existence.The museum owns some 5,500 objects, including Old Masters paintings, collections of 18th century art and furnishings and full suits of Medieval and Renaissance armour. What makes it thoroughly engaging is how vividly the past is brought to life in rooms once inhabited by the Seymour Conway family, better known as the Marquesses of Hertford.Each era of the collection showcases furnishings, chandeliers, paintings and porcelain exhibited together. The visitor thus gains an overall sense of the visual grandeur of the period while viewing up close some of the finest art and craft of th...
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