Rothschild, Alice Charlotte von (1847-1922)

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild, photographed around 1870 in Highland dress. Alice Charlotte von Rothschild, photographed around 1870 in Highland dress.

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild was born in 1847 in Frankfurt as the eighth and youngest child of Anselm and Charlotte von Rothschild. She was the sister of another great, nineteenth century collector, Ferdinand von Rothschild. In 1875, Alice von Rothschild acquired the Eythrope estate, close to the Waddesdon Manor of her brother, Ferdinand. When her brother died in 1898, she inherited Waddesdon.

Alice von Rothschild was particularly interested in arts and crafts of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including enamel, metal work, painting, and smoking pipes, but especially embrodieries on, or taken from, ecclesiastical vestments. Many of her acquisitions were displayed or stored at Eythrope, and after Alice von Rothschild inherited Waddesdon, many of the objects were moved to her new domicile.

Alice von Rothschild spent most of her time in her villa 'Villa Victoria' near Grasse, southern France. Queen Victoria visited her there.

Source: BOAK, Rachel (2013). Sacred Stitches. Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor/National Trust, pp. 12-13.

Wikipedia (retrieved 20 March 2017).

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 20 March 2017).

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