Collector

This page lists 643 biographies of collectors, covering lives from 1007 to 2000. Featuring Louis Paul Cailletet, Carl Djerassi and Charles Hatchett. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

James Thomas Hooper

1897 – 1971

Carlos W. Elmenhorst

1910 – 2000

Thomas Phillipps

1792 – 1872

Jean Grolier de Servières

1479 – 1565

Deb Hoffmann

b. 1965

Wang Qishu

1728 – 1800

Cecilia de Madrazo

1846 – 1932

Chu-tsing Li

1920 – 2014

Jane Ross

1810 – 1879

Karl Joseph von (Prince) Clary-Aldringen

1777 – 1831

Margaret Benn Walsh

1758 – 1836

Templeton Crocker

1884 – 1948

William Habraken

b. 1944

James Mackelvie

1824 – 1885

Dudley Stanhope, 9th Earl of Harrington

1859 – 1928

Alfred Potiquet

1820 – 1883

Hedvig Ulfsparre

1877 – 1963

John de Foxton

1369 – 1450

Joseph Gulston

1745 – 1786

B. Gerald Cantor

1916 – 1996

Éléonore de Raab

b. 1741

Philipp von Ferrary

1850 – 1917

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

1557 – 1619

Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore

1910 – 1997

Al Seckel

1958 – 2015

Annewies van Winter

1793 – 1877

Pang Laichen

1864 – 1949

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover

1668 – 1705

Eleanor Houston Smith

1910 – 1987

Sándor Wolf

1871 – 1946

Ruth Lewis

1871 – 1946

Robert S. Johnston

Susan Grant-Lewin

Carl Künzel

1808 – 1877

Zhang Boju

1898 – 1982

Joost Ritman

1941 – 2026

Bella Clara Landauer

1874 – 1960

Johannes Thysius

1621 – 1653

Kenneth Athol Webster

1906 – 1967

Faith Eaton

1927 – 2005

Honoré III, Prince of Monaco

1720 – 1795

Henry Davis Sleeper

1878 – 1934

Cornelis Elout

1714 – 1779

Luigi Tarisio

1790 – 1854

Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc

1707 – 1781

Harrison Horblit

1912 – 1988

Captain Cox of Coventry

Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

1666 – 1751

Charles II, Elector Palatine

1651 – 1685

Henry Constantine Jennings

1731 – 1819

Pan Zuyin

1830 – 1890

Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia

1639 – 1710

Jacques Joseph Marie Decroix

1746 – 1826

Charles Hamilton, Count of Arran

1691 – 1754

Ángeles Magret Vilá

1896 – 1963

Xu Sihai

1946 – 2020

William Webb

1834 – 1897

Pierre Jean Chalençon

b. 1970

Carl Weeks

1876 – 1962

Ray Hanna

1928 – 2005

Jacob de Wilde

1645 – 1725

Hannah English Williams

Tommaso dei Cavalieri

1509 – 1587

Betty Ring

1923 – 2014

Otto Hornung

1920 – 2013

Andreas Reischek

1845 – 1902

Philipp Franz von Siebold

1796 – 1866

Mi Fu

1051 – 1107

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

1735 – 1796

Michael Butler

1927 – 2013

Iona Opie

1923 – 2017

Oskar Federer

1884 – 1967

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham

1797 – 1878

Michael Pearson

1936 – 2017

James Hornell

1865 – 1949

William Blake

1757 – 1827

Julius Riemer

1880 – 1958

Josef Hellich

1807 – 1880

Michel Auer

1933 – 2024

Ruth Deutsch Lechuga

1920 – 2004

Raymond Tripier

1838 – 1916

Susan Minns

1839 – 1938

Philipp von Stosch

1691 – 1757

George Arents

1875 – 1960

Bud Ekins

1930 – 2007

Inger McCabe Elliott

1933 – 2024

Artan Lame

1967 – 2025

Dora B. Stafford

Léonce de Tarragon

1813 – 1897

Federico Cerruti

1922 – 2015

Marie Cuttoli

1879 – 1973

Maxim Viktorov

b. 1972

Gottfried Honegger

1917 – 2016

George A. Lucas

1824 – 1909

August Lederer

1857 – 1936

Friedrich Förster

1865 – 1918

August Kestner

1777 – 1853

Ivan Tereshchenko

1854 – 1903

Franco Maria Ricci

1937 – 2020

Arthur Robinson Wright

1862 – 1932