page_title: Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato
section_title: Art collector
hierarchical_section_title: Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato / Life / Art collector
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait of Mathilde Bonaparte (1820-1904)
context_page_description: Count Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato was a Russian industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of the Demidov family.
context_section_description: He also considerably expanded the Demidov collection assembled by his father at the Villa San Donato near Florence, being particularly interested in Romantic art. In the Paris Salon of 1834 he acquired Paul Delaroche's The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (now in the National Gallery, London). In 1833, he bought François Marius Granet's The Death of Poussin, which caused a sensation at the 1834 Salon. He commissioned paintings from Eugène Delacroix and watercolours from Richard Parkes Bonington and Théodore Géricault, as well as Briullov's The Last Day of Pompeii. His collection was split up in public sales in Paris in 1863 and shortly before the prince's death in 1870.
caption: Mathilde Bonaparte
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