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SUMMARY:City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century - Dr A
 nthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:City financiers of the late seventeenth century were enthusias
 tic creators of foundations supporting hospitals\, schools and almshouses 
 in London and further afield. Funds were desperately needed following the 
 disruption of the Civil War and the destruction of the Fire. These mercant
 ile patrons were nevertheless roundly criticised by contemporaries for mis
 directing resources\, not least by building ‘palaces for beggars’ as m
 emorials to themselves. Art historians have been no kinder\, Summerson sug
 gesting that ‘The City contributed nothing to the art of the Stuarts and
  Georgians.’ My presentation seeks to re-evaluate the achievements of th
 ese financiers - their social and artistic impact - and the arguments pres
 ented by their critics.
LOCATION:Darwin College\, Old Library
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