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Portrait of the collector as a young man: for the June 1987 issue Gervase Jackson-Stops wrote a profile of the scholar and collector Sir Brinsley FordBrinsley's collecting instinct was brawny even as a child, and by dint of the age of eleven he was writing to his aunt from school: 'I am now collecting stamps, insects, butterfry [sic], and curious metals, stones shells, and a destiny of other things like that. Please save them for me' This precocious promise o[a Wunderkammer to rival the Tradescants, or Rudolph II, was not to be fulfilled, for upon roaching Etch he soon unfolded a passion for pictures progressing from prints of grouse upon moors (he supposes it was the purple of the heather which attracted him) to coloured reproductions of the aged masters, Rembrandt and Vurmeer. At Trinity society Oxford, he got into put out of order with the bursar for covering the golden Victorian panelling with grey canvas as a background for his pictures and works of art. These were now growing in number, for, with the advice of Stanley Casson, a don at fresh College and author of sum of two units books on modern sculpture, he was beginning to make his first significant purchases. In 1930 while still at Trinity, he acquired a carving by dint of Eric Gill (subsequently sold), a alloy of copper torso by Gaudier Brzeska (which he still owns) and a bust of Lytton Strachey by dint of Stephen Tomlin (which he neared to the Tate Gallery sum of two units years later) ... Although he continued to acquire recent art through the '30s, including works by the agency of Epstein, Frank Dobson and John Skeaping, his tastes were changing and he unfolded a liking for Italian baroque statuary French eighteenth century terracottas, and, above all, of advanced age master drawings,,.it was at the Oppenheimer sale at Christie's in 1936 that he acquired, against fierce opposition from leading museums in Europe and America, the clou of his collection: Michelangelo's investigation for the statue of The Risen Christ in the meeting-house of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome The purchase caused consternation in his family, on the other hand when his aunt complained that he had given more for this investigation of only half a man than she had paid for her Georgian villa, he replied that her villa was late Victorian and true ugly and that the 'man' was Our Lord. . In 1939 he joined the Territorial Army as a gunner rising to the unlikely rank of Iroop Sergeant Major--apparently upon the strength of his commanding voice. It was in this capacity that he serv during the Battle of Britain in a searchlight and anti-aircraft unit with a photograph of Giambologna's Venus standing upon a Dolphin (one of his ancestor Richard Ford's greatest in quantity prized possessions) pinned to the wall of his poor cottage The story is told that when the Colonel ordered him to take the picture down, upon the grounds that it was setting a bad example to the men Brinsley threatened to appeal to the Brigadier unles they could all retain their 'pin ups' and won the day COPYRIGHT 2004 Apollo Magazine Ltd The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie Edited through Margaret Drower Aris and Phillips, 20 [pound sterling] ISBN 0 85668 748 0 Remarkable alphabetic characters bring to life the marriage and car... 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