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It includes five Imperial Easter eggs! There’s also a suite of rooms dedicated to the Gans collection of English silver. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has a large and spectacular Faberge collection – the first of two I would see in as many days. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Faberge firm and Henrik Wigstrom, Imperial Tsarevich Easter Egg, 1912. There are lovely tapestries in the European galleries, alongside the fabulous juxtaposition (show at the top of the post) of Joshua Reynolds and Kahanda Wiley. The museum owns significant European art, including modern French painting, that’s part of the Mellon Collection. The European collection doesn’t include a ton of big names, at least not in what I saw on display. I also enjoyed a beautiful portrait of a baroness in a white dress by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Angelica Kauffman’s Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchiwas a huge highlight for me, and it was actually part of the reason I visited. The museum also has smaller collections of antiquities, Asian art, African art, and European art. Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Lydia Schabelsky, Baroness Stael-Holstein, c.1857-8. The room, a bedroom from a New York City townhouse, was originally owned by Arabella Worsham (later Arabella Huntington) she later sold it to John D. It comes as kind of a shock when you turn the corner and see it there. However, there are also a lot of very enjoyable works by names I don’t hear much, which is always nice. There are several galleries of early American and colonial-era furniture and paintings, a wide selection of 19th century, and two large rooms of contemporary, among other things. There is also a period room in the middle of the galleries. Big names are represented, including several works by John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. The McGlothlin Collection of American art is large and includes both fine and decorative works from all periods.