Mary Anne Barbara Holburne

Mary Anne Barbara Holburne (1802-82)

Mary Anne Barbara, William’s youngest sister, made the necessary arrangements for his collection to form Bath’s first art museum. On her death she left his art collection and her estate to Trustees to found the Holburne Museum. The museum opened in 1893 in premises in Charlotte Street off Queen Square. It remained there, in its rather cramped accommodation, for over twenty years until money left by Catherine Cussans allowed the museum to move to its new home on Great Pulteney Street.