The Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection occupies a townhouse near Manchester Square, displaying the art amassed by five generations of one family and left to the nation in 1897. Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier and Fragonard's The Swing hang among French eighteenth-century painting, furniture, and one of the great collections of arms and armour. Under the terms of the bequest, nothing may be added to or lent from the collection.