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Thomas Holloway
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The Mighty Healer
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it was said Holloway’s Ointment could cure lesions on a wooden leg. Bottling leftover cooking grease in the kitchen of his parents’ Cornish pub, Thomas’s dubious cure-alls made him one of the richest self-made men in England. Promising to save respectable Victorian invalids ‘FROM THE POINT OF DEATH’ (his capitals), the self-proclaimed ‘Professor’ Holloway used his millions to build the ...
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria
"Thomas Holloway, a self-made English multi-millionaire, embarked upon a carefully orchestrated purchasing spree during the last years of his life, amassing a remarkable collection of modern paintings. This collection was the final enhancement to Holloway's generous endowment of a College for women, founded in 1879 and opened by Queen Victoria in 1886. The collection was widely reported and attracted visitors from the start but, although individual paintings have appeared in major exhibitions in Europe and the United States, this exhibition will enable American visitors to see the majority of these works for the very first time." "The exhibition highlights sixty extraordinary paintings which not only exemplify the astute taste of a late Victorian collector, but also represent some of the highest achievements in the figurative and landscape art of the nineteenth century. This volume accompanies the exhibition, which was organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandra, Virginia."--Jacket.
