Russian-born London merchant and patron of the fine arts. Arriving in London at the age of 15, he started a successful career in Lloyd's Bank at the age of 21. He profited from Lloyd's underwriting of the slave trade and invested his money into art collecting. His collection of some forty paintings became the starting point of the National Gallery in London. Until the National Gallery was built in Trafalgar Square, the works were displayed in Angerstein's town house in Pall Mall. He was close to King George III and Prime Minister William Pitt the Yonger. In 1771 Angerstein married Anna Crockett (widow of Charles Crockett and daughter of Henry Muilman (1700–1772) a South Sea Company director, banker, Danish consul in London and Russia Company consul, and Anne née Darnall) at St Peter-le-Poer, Old Broad Street. They had two children - Juliana, who married General Sablukoff of the Russia Service, and John Angerstein (MP) (1773–1858). (A memorial in the church of St Nicholas at Bratton St Maur, near Wincanton, Somerset, describes a John Julius Angerstein who was born in 1843 and died in 1924 as the proprietor of nearby Holbrook House and says he worshipped in the church of St Nicholas, but also records his having died in Norfolk; this is presumably a descendant of the MP.) Anna died in 1783, and in 1785 John Julius Angerstein married Eliza Lucas (daughter of the Rev. Joseph Payne and widow of Thomas Lucas, a director of the South Sea Company, president of Guy's Hospital and West Indies merchant).
Russian-born London merchant and patron of the fine arts. Arriving in London at the age of 15, he started a successful career in Lloyd's Bank at the age of 21. He profited from Lloyd's underwriting of the slave trade and invested his money into art collecting. His collection of some forty paintings became the starting point of the National Gallery in London. Until the National Gallery was built in Trafalgar Square, the works were displayed in Angerstein's town house in Pall Mall. He was close to King George III and Prime Minister William Pitt the Yonger. In 1771 Angerstein married Anna Crockett (widow of Charles Crockett and daughter of Henry Muilman (1700–1772) a South Sea Company director, banker, Danish consul in London and Russia Company consul, and Anne née Darnall) at St Peter-le-Poer, Old Broad Street. They had two children - Juliana, who married General Sablukoff of the Russia Service, and John Angerstein (MP) (1773–1858). (A memorial in the church of St Nicholas at Bratton St Maur, near Wincanton, Somerset, describes a John Julius Angerstein who was born in 1843 and died in 1924 as the proprietor of nearby Holbrook House and says he worshipped in the church of St Nicholas, but also records his having died in Norfolk; this is presumably a descendant of the MP.) Anna died in 1783, and in 1785 John Julius Angerstein married Eliza Lucas (daughter of the Rev. Joseph Payne and widow of Thomas Lucas, a director of the South Sea Company, president of Guy's Hospital and West Indies merchant).
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Geneanet Community Trees Index
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Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
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England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
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London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
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