Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross (23 April 1912 – 28 August 1987) was the founder of Land Securities, one of the United Kingdom's largest property companies.
Harold SamuelNicolaes Maes, Young Woman Sewing, 1655, from the Samuel collection on the cover of the catalogue prepared by Peter C. Sutton.
He is often credited with coining the tricolon expression "location, location, location", but the phrase was already in common use when he was still quite young.[6]
Other interestsedit
Harold Samuel was an avid art collector. His collection of Dutch paintings, formed for him with the help of the dealer Edward Speelman,[7] was donated to the Mansion House Art Collection by his wife after his death[8] and subsequently displayed at the Barbican and toured the United States while the Mansion House was being renovated. A catalogue of the collection was prepared by Peter C. Sutton and published by Cambridge University Press to accompany the exhibition.
Coat of arms of Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross
Crest
In front of a demi-sun Or a house martin wings addorsed Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent a bend Gules masoned Or between two masons' trowels bendwise Proper on a chief Vert a balance Or.
Supporters
On either side an old man Proper bearded in flowing robes Argent and shod with sandals that to the dexter holding in the exterior hand a horn of oil Proper lid and virols Or that to the sinister holding beneath the exterior arm two scrolls Proper.
Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection, Cambridge University Press, 1992 ISBN978-0-521-41795-2
April 10, 2024
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