Constantine Alexander Ionides

Alexander Constantine Ionides and his wife and children, by George Frederic Watts, 1841 (Watts Gallery) - Constantine Alexander is the first child on the left, with his arms round his mother's neck.

Constantine Alexander Ionides (14 May 1833, Manchester - 29 June 1900, Brighton) was a major 19th century British art patron and collector of Greek ancestry, the son of the collector Alexander Constantine Ionides. He is best known for his bequest of 82 oil paintings to the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is buried in Hove.

External links

• "Ionides, Constantine Alexander", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14441 

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Name	Ionides
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Date of birth	14 May 1833
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Date of death	29 June 1900
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