A collector from an early age, he had, by the 1940s, built up a remarkable and impressive collection of Oriental art and books.

After receiving approximately 400 German-Expressionist pieces by collector Galka E. Scheyer in 1953, the Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954 and occupied the Chinoiserie-style “ The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art ” building ( now the Pacific Asia Museum ) on North Los Robles Avenue until 1970.

An art connoisseur and collector, George filled his mansion with Oriental carpets, tapestries, antiques, and artwork, including paintings by Renoir and Whistler, and a chess set that had belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Andrzej Michal Wawrzyniak – ( born 1931 ) a sailor, diplomat, connoisseur and collector of the Oriental art, founder and a Lifetime Director and Curator-in Chief of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw.

* 2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector ( b. 1921 )

* George Cumberland ( 1754 – 1848 ), art collector and artist

* 1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector ( b. 1898 )

Visiting galleries in Geneva and the Brücke Museum in Berlin, Bowie became, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " a prolific producer and collector of contemporary art.

Meanwhile Rosa participated in contributing art and articles to comic collector fanzines.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist ( d. 1949 )

* David Walsh, art collector and founder of the Museum of Old and New Art

Subsequently, Helene Kröller-Müller became an avid art collector, and one of the first people to recognise the genius of Vincent van Gogh.

Schedel was also a notable collector of books, art and old master prints.

* John Henry Young ( 1880 – 1946 ), Australian art collector, art dealer and art gallery director

* 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector ( b. 1923 )

* 1913 – George Costakis, Greek art collector ( d. 1990 )

* 1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman and art collector ( d. 1646 )

* 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector ( b. 1907 )

* Joseph Smith ( 1682 – 1770 ), British art collector and consul at Venice

The painting was commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American art collector based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lorenzo's father, Piero ' the Gouty ' de ' Medici, was also at the center of Florentine life, active as an art patron and collector.

The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

* 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director ( d. 1964 )

* 1940 – Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol " superstar "

Forrest J. Ackerman ( born Forrest James Ackerman ; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008 ) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

Fred had been interested in books from his youth, and by the time he was in Washington was a collector haunting the book shops and building a small collection.

Rupert Boyce, a prolific book collector on the subject, allows one Overlord, Rashaverak, to study these books at his home.

He was an avid collector of antiques, books and posters and amassed a collection of over 53, 000 postcards ; he produced several compilation books of them including Ronnie Barker's Book of Bathing Beauties, A Pennyworth of Art and Sauce.

Osler was a prolific author and a great collector of books and other material relevant to the history of medicine.

Danzig became an avid collector of occult books, horror related articles, B movie posters, Japanese animation videos, rare Japanese toys, and animal skulls.

After leaving Oxford without a degree, he made an attempt to study law, but desultorily and unsuccessfully ; he had no steady income and spent large sums on books ( he was a lifelong collector ).

He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo ( now Durrell Wildlife Park ) on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast.

There are dozens of Leica books and collector ’ s guides, notably the three-volume Leica, an Illustrated History by James L. Lager.

This avid collector and autograph signer had also written comedy books and performed comedy bits in a ring with Muhammad Ali for TV and both posed for the cover of one of his publications.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

Minakata ’ s thirst for knowledge was growing bigger as he at home recited the Chinese classics and transcribed the books that he had learned by heart at a collector ’ s place.

In 1954, Etti married her last husband, Dr Árpád Plesch ( 1889 – 1974 ), a Hungarian lawyer, international financier, and collector of rare botanical books and pornographic esoterica.

Norwich states, “ He was, we are told, a passionate collector — not only of books and manuscripts but works of art of every kind ; more remarkable still for a man of his class, he seems to have been an excellent painter.

Clark was an avid collector of rare books, especially fine prints.

One of several unusual behaviors associated with books, bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector.