| Admin/Biog History | Between 1995-1998, a catalogue of the Ford collection was compiled and published. At the time, the collection was owned by Brinsley Ford (1908-1999), who also funded and oversaw the project. It consisted of the collections of his ancestor, Benjamin Booth (1732-1807), and his great-grandfather, Richard Ford (1796-1858), alongside his own.
The Ford catalogue was published across two issues of the Walpole Society journal, Herrmann, L. (ed.) (1998) The Ford collection I & II. The Walpole Society, 60. The Walpole Society: London. [a copy is available in the Paul Mellon Centre Library, see URL below]. There were initially plans to publish one of the issues in Apollo, although this did not transpire.
Hayes worked closely with Luke Herrmann and Ford on the planning and organisation of the project in his capacity as co-vice president of the Walpole Society, as well as contributing entries to the catalogue, focusing on works by Gainsborough and Rowlandson, among others.
The Brinsley Ford Archive also contains material related to the Ford collection catalogue, and is mostly comprised of correspondence between Ford and contributors to the catalogue, as well as gallery professionals. This material can be found in the Brinsley Ford Archive, Ref No: RBF/14/1 'Publication of the Ford collection catalogue' |
| Description | This file contains thirty-seven letters, primarily between Hayes, Brinsley Ford, Luke Herrmann, honorary editor, Walpole Society, Bobby Gore, trustee, Walpole Society, and Robin Simon, editor, Apollo, dated between 18 June 1995-20 August 1998, concerning various administrative matters relating to the publication of the catalogue.
Also included are meeting minutes and associated planning notes, twenty-one photocopies of works, some notes on the collection provided by Ford, and a photocopy of a translated article on Ford's collection which was originally featured in a Japanese publication on Western collectors. |