RUSSELL-COTES ART GALLERY

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The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, East Cliff Promenade, Bournemouth. Merton Russell Cotes (8 May 1835–27 January 1921) married at Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 1 February 1860, Annie Nelson née Clark and they moved to Bournemouth in 1876. In 1901 Merton Russell-Cotes gave his wife Annie a dream house on a cliff-top, overlooking the sea and when Undercliff Drive opened in 1907, it was announced that Annie and Merton wished to donate their home, East Cliff Hall, and its contents to the people of Bournemouth and in 1917 in an open letter Annie, who donated further property including the 'new gallery which she had erected at East Cliff' to Bournemouth Corporation. Both Annie and Merton Russell-Cotes had amassed a diverse collection of works of art and curios and those donated to the town are displayed in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth's principal museum, which is located in East Cliff Hall and is named in his honour. Russell-Cotes was knighted in 1909 and his wife died at East Cliff on 17 April 1920, aged 84.
Website: https://russellcotes.com

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