WADDESDON MANOR
Alice's Wonderlands
This guide is a companion to four linked exhibitions celebrating the life, collections and legacy of Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922) on the centenary of her death.
Alice, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s sister, is not as well known as she deserves to be. She lived alongside her brother, the builder of Waddesdon, and inherited the Manor and its contents after his dea...
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1. Alice de Rothschild: A Collector
1.1. How Alice acquired her collection
1.2 Renaissance Art
1.3 Pastels and Paintings
1.4 Sèvres
1.5 Exhibition Corridor
1.6 Arms and Armour
2 . Alice de Rothschild: ‘An Active & Useful Life’
2.1 Early Life
2.2 An Accomplished Woman
2.3 Forming Friendships
2.4 Finding Independence
2.5 Managing her Estates
2.6 Attention to detail
2.7 Grasse
2.8 Death & Legacy