Talk:Dulwich Picture Gallery

Photo request
Would be lovely if someone could take a photo =] JoshHolloway 18:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There is one now, but there is room for improvement. Honbicot 16:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Better image uploaded.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 18:35, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Oldest?
"the world's first purpose-built art gallery"? What about the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridericianum_(Kassel) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.142.223.33 (talk) 22:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This says (page 102) it is Europe's oldest public art gallery. It also says that there was a big theft in 1966. Worth a mention I'd say. Malick78 (talk) 16:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The addition of "surviving" or "in continuous use" would solve the question, the Fridericianum having been used as a Governmental building for a period soon after its opening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.10.230.112 (talk) 09:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Significant Article Degradation
This article has recently suffered from severe degradation. There is clear marketing occuring with sections being added that do not comply with wiki standards.

Sections on "late night events", "catalogue", clear copyvio of images, incorrect copyrights, "DPG friends" and useless trivia have degraded this article.

Therefore, I recommend a reversal to an earlier version of this article from Jan 14, 2008.

ImperialCollegeGrad (talk) 09:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It is certainly somewhat hagiographic in describing the owner of the main set of brothels in Jacobean London as philanthropic. The problem was that Alleyn married into money, inheriting Phillip Henslowe's property, which included brothels catering for almost every form of vice known to man. To this he added the wealth from the theatres and other entertainments such as the Bear Pit, and doubtless pubs, inns, and every other form of income associated with crowds. He then used it to buy the Manors of Camberwell and Dulwich, building a property portfolio of such size that the Lord Chancellor (Prime Minister of the day) Francis Bacon spent a considerable amount of time helping him set up what became the Trust as a way of settling his inheritance without causing economic disruption to London. even now the Trust owns something like a third of the land between Southwark and Crystal Palace. That is not philanthropy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.10.230.112 (talk) 09:15, 9 September 2015 (UTC)