Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet

Wallace inherited the Hertford family's great collection of French eighteenth-century paintings, furniture and armour and added to it. After his death, his widow, Lady Wallace, bequeathed the collection at Hertford House to the nation in 1897, on condition that nothing be added to it or taken away. The Wallace Collection opened in 1900 and remains free, and the terms of the bequest have long kept its works from being lent out.