- Louis Huth
Louis Huth (1821-
12 February 1905 ) was a Britishart collector , art dealer and patron ofAesthetic movement artists. He was born atFinsbury inGreater London .Huth was Director of
The London Assurance for Fire, Life and Marine Assurance .Between 1865-1869 he commissioned Matthew Digby Wyatt to design
Possingworth Manor ,Cross in Hand ,Waldron, East Sussex .On his death, he left an estate valued at £341,000. [Youssef Cassis. "City Bankers, 1890-1941"]
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*Macleod, Dianne Sachko, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, Cambridge, 1996, p. 432.
* [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Huth_L.htm Biography for Louis Huth]
* [http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=8978&RID= University of Glasgow Manuscripts Catalogue]
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