John Bouverie

John Bouverie (c. 1723 – 19 September 1750) was a British antiquarian and art collector. He was the originator of a collection of drawings now known as the "Bouverie collection", which passed to the his spinster sister Elizabeth and from her to Sir Charles Middleton, then to Middleton's son-in-law Sir Gerald Noel, father of the 1st Earl of Gainsborough. Bouverie died at Guzel Hissar on 19 September 1750 whilst travelling in the Ottoman Empire and observing ancient remains there with Robert Wood and James Dawkins.

External links

• Nicholas Turner, 'John Bouverie as a Collector of Drawings', The Burlington Magazine © 1994
• Article on his collector's mark in the online edition of Lugt's Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes