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24-679: On Misplaced Pages, salting means protecting the creation of a page. [REDACTED] Look up salting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salting or Salted may refer to: People [ edit ] George Salting (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the Salting Madonna (Antonello da Messina) , National Gallery, London Other [ edit ] Salting (food) ,

48-409: A de-icing agent Figuratively, adding ("sprinkling") a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons Salt (cryptography) , a method to secure passwords Salted bomb , a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity Salting (confidence trick) , process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on

72-576: A Bachelor of Arts degree in 1857. In 1858 the Salting family again travelled to England; Louisa Salting died there on 24 July 1858. Severin Salting settled in Kent , where he died in 1865. Severin Salting made a large fortune in sheep-farming and sugar-growing which he bequeathed to his son; George Salting inherited a fortune estimated at £30,000 a year. Largely influenced by the connoisseur Louis Huth , Salting began collecting Chinese porcelain , developing

96-442: A fine discriminating taste for it. His collection gradually extended and included English furniture, bronzes, majolica, glass, hard stones, manuscripts, miniatures, pictures, carpets, and other items which might be found in a good museum. Salting was a careful buyer, as a rule dealing only with two or three dealers whom he felt he could trust, though he sometimes bought at auction. He often obtained expert advice and his own knowledge

120-748: A gift of £500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students from Sydney Grammar School . George Salting's mother was Louisa Augusta, née Fiellerup. George Salting was educated locally and then moved with his family to England and studied at Eton College . In 1853 the family returned to New South Wales, and Salting entered the newly founded University of Sydney. There he won prizes for compositions in Latin hexameters in 1855 and 1857, in Latin elegiacs in 1856, 1857 and 1858, and for Latin essays in 1854 and 1856. Salting graduated with

144-417: A piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas Salting mailing lists , including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse Salting (union organizing) , a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing

168-587: A union Salted (book) , a 2010 cookbook by Mark Bitterman See also [ edit ] Salt (disambiguation) Salty (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Salting . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salting&oldid=1229801311 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

192-633: Is buried in Brompton Cemetery . His will was sworn at over £1,300,000. Of this he bequeathed £10,000 to London hospitals, £2000 to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital at Sydney, and £30,000 to relatives and others. The residue of his estate went to the heirs of his brother, who predeceased him. Salting left his entire collection of paintings, Oriental china, bronzes, and miniatures, valued at from $ 5,000,000 to $ 20,000,000, to British museums. He bequeathed his paintings to

216-435: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages George Salting George Salting (15 August 1835 – 12 December 1909) was an Colony of New South Wales-born British art collector . He had inherited considerable wealth from his father; Salting collected paintings, Chinese porcelains, furniture, and many other categories of art and decorative items. He left his paintings to

240-728: The Liechtenstein Museum after nearly 60 years with most in storage. The important collection of the Thyssen family , mostly kept in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , which settled in Madrid in 1992, was bought by the Spanish state. Only an exhibited part, the collection of Carmen Cervera , widow of the late Baron Thyssen, remains private but exhibited separately in the museum. Many collections were left to

264-645: The National Gallery , London, and his prints and drawings to the British Museum as the respective trustees might select. The remainder of his art collection went to the Victoria and Albert Museum , with a proviso that it was to be kept together and not distributed over the various departments. It is a notable collection to have been put together by one person, the standard being extraordinarily high. The Chinese pottery and porcelain belonged mostly to

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288-576: The National Gallery, London , prints and drawings to the British Museum , and the remainder to the Victoria & Albert Museum , requesting that the collection be displayed intact rather than divided among the museum's departments. Salting was born in Sydney , the son of Severin Kanute (Knud) Salting (1806–1865), a Dane who had extensive business interests in New South Wales . In 1858 he made

312-637: The Orleans Collection in Paris, mostly sold in London. When this happens, it can be a large loss to those interested in art as the initial vision of the collector is lost. The Princely Family of Liechtenstein have works by such artists as Hals , Raphael , Rembrandt and Van Dyck , a collection containing some 1,600 works of art, but were unable to show them since 1945 when they were smuggled out of Nazi Germany . The works were finally displayed in

336-553: The 1920s. Collecting of African art was rare until after World War II. In recognition of its importance in influencing the production of new art and the preservation of old art, art collecting has been an area of considerable academic research in recent decades, having been somewhat neglected previously. Very famous collections that are now dispersed include the Borghese Collection and Farnese collection in Rome, and

360-543: The Crown, though distinguished from the private property of the British Royal Family . The cabinet of curiosities was an important mixed form of collection, including art and what we would now call natural history or scientific collections. These were formed by royalty but smaller ones also by merchants and scholars. The tastes and habits of collectors have played a very important part in determining what art

384-638: The Victoria and Albert Museum, Salting Painter . He gave three paintings to the National Gallery during his life, and bequeathed an additional 192 in his will. Of those 31 have since been transferred to the Tate Gallery . His collection of paintings included: Some of the artifacts bequeathed by Salting, now in the Vicotria and Albert Museum, London Art collector Art collecting

408-532: The collections of those who would normally qualify for the term had to be considerably larger, and some were enormous. Increasingly collectors tended to specialize in one or two types of work, although some, like George Salting (1835–1909), still had a very wide scope for their collections. Apart from antiquities , which were regarded as perhaps the highest form of collecting from the Renaissance until relatively recently, and also books, paintings and prints from

432-447: The late 15th century onwards, until the 18th century collectors tended to collect fairly new works from Europe. The extension of serious collecting to art from all periods and places was an essentially 19th-century development, or at least dating to the Age of Enlightenment . Trecento paintings were little appreciated until about the 1830s, and Chinese ritual bronzes and jades until perhaps

456-520: The later dynasties, but much of the work of the great Tang period was practically unobtainable when Salting was collecting. It was suggested at the time of his death that as his wealth had been drawn from Australia, some of his collection should be donated to the Australian galleries. Nothing came of this; probably the legal difficulties were impassable. John D. Beazley named after an attic red-figure vase formerly owned by George Salting today in

480-442: The preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste Salting the earth , the practice of "sowing" salt on cities or property as a symbolic act Salting a bird's tail , a superstition Salt marsh Salting out , a method of separating proteins using salt Salting (initiation ceremony) , an early modern English university initiation ceremony Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as

504-665: The public in some form, and are now museums, or the nucleus of a museum's collection. Most museums are formed around one or more formerly private collection acquired as a whole. Major examples where few or no additions have been made include the Wallace Collection and Sir John Soane's Museum in London, the Frick Collection and Morgan Library in New York, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and

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528-525: Was always growing. As a consequence he made few mistakes, and these were usually corrected by the pieces being exchanged for better specimens. Salting lived modestly mostly in London, occupying just two living rooms. Except for an occasional few days shooting, he made collecting, and its associated research and study, his occupation. Salting never married and he did not give largely to charities. In spite of his large expenditure on collecting, his fortune increased during his lifetime. Salting died in London and

552-656: Was common among the wealthy in the Ancient World in both Europe and East Asia , and in the Middle Ages , but developed in its modern form during the Renaissance and continues to the present day. The royal collections of most countries were originally the grandest of private collections but are now mostly in public ownership. However the British Royal Collection remains under the care of

576-404: Was produced, providing the demand that artists supply. Many types of objects, such as medals , engravings , small plaquettes , modern engraved gems and bronze statuettes were essentially made for the collector's market. By the 18th century all homes of the well-to-do were expected to contain a selection of objects, from paintings to porcelain , that could form part of an art collection, and

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