Felix Slade
Felix Joseph Slade ( born August 6 1788 in Lambeth, London, † March 29, 1868 in London ) was an English lawyer and art collector.
Life
His father, Robert Carpenter was a publisher and selling books, his mother Eliza was the heiress of the Foxcroft estate in Yorkshire. They had four sons, two of whom Robert Agnes († in childhood 1787) and Edward Foxcroft († 1809), died young. After the death of his elder brother William on 10 Jan. 1858, who was also a bachelor, Felix inherited the entire fortune.
Slade was a great collector of books and engravings, ceramics and Japanese ivories. He also had a remarkable glass collection, in which he had invested £ 8,000 and for an illustrated catalog was published by Sir AW Franks ( privately printed London, 1871). Slade was elected in 1866 a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He also contributed to exhibitions of the Archaeological Institute, which published some of his strange objects in their magazine.
Slade died unmarried at his home Walcot Place ( Kennington Road) on 29 March 1868, his will was opened on 21 April. His movable assets amounted to 160,000 l
He left his art collection to the British Museum.
Furthermore possessed Slade, that 35,000 will be for each a chair for promoting the study of fine arts at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and at University College, London, furnished.
The first endowed chair of the Slade School of Arts was occupied at the University of Cambridge 1869-1873 with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.
The second chair of a Slade Professor was occupied at the University of Oxford 1870-1879 by John Ruskin, who combined this office with the establishment of a school of drawing. After William Blake Richmond of (1879-1883) held the post, Ruskin took over again this position from 1883 to 1885.
At University College London ( ULC ) was appointed Slade Professor at October 2, 1871 Sir Edward Poynter. Only the Slade School of Fine Art in London received an additional grant for six art grants over 50, - pa for students under 19 years. Poyntner established there the tradition of figurative drawing on the French model, and soon made the Royal Academy competition. After retiring in 1875, he made sure that the Alphonse Legros Frenchman the next Slade Professor was.