George Salting

George Salting was an Australianborn British art collector. He had inherited considerable wealth from his father Salting collected paintings, Chinese porcelains, furniture, and many other categories of art and decorative items. He left his paintings to the National Gallery, London, prints and drawings to the British Museum, and the remainder to the Victoria amp Albert Museum, requesting that the collection be displayed intact rather than divided among the museums departments.

Salting was born in Sydney, the son of Severin Knud Salting , a Dane who had extensive business interests in New South Wales. In 1858 he made a gift of 500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students from Sydney Grammar School. George Saltings mother was Louisa Augusta, ne Fiellerup.

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