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WALLACE COLLECTION
Hertford House, Manchester Square Bond Street 020 7563 9500,
www.wallacecollection.org
.
Daily
10am-5pm.Free.
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Housed in a miniature eighteenth-century French-style chateau, the Wallace Collection is an
old-fashioned place, with exhibits piled high in glass cabinets, paintings covering every inch
of wall space and a bloody great armoury. The collection is best known for its eighteenth-
century French furniture and paintings (especially Watteau); look out, too, for Franz Hals'
Laughing Cavalier
, Titian's
Perseus and Andromeda
, Velázquez's
Lady with a Fan
and
Rembrandt's affectionate portrait of his teenage son, Titus. Labelling can be pretty terse and
paintings occasionally move about, so you might consider renting an audioguide.
WALLACE COLLECTION
RIBA
66 Portland Place Regent's Park 020 7580 5533,
www.architecture.com
.Mon, Wed & Thurs 8am-7pm,
Tues 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 9am-5pm.Free.
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With its sleek 1930s Portland-stone facade, the headquarters of the
Royal Institute of Brit-
ish Architects
is easily the finest building on Portland Place. Inside, the main staircase re-
