Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973) Henry Rogers Broughton succeeded his older brother, Urban Huttleston Broughton, as 2nd Lord Fairhaven in 1966. Born in America, Henry was educated at St Paul’s School, USA and Harrow before Commissioning from the Royal Military Academy
Works on Paper from the Collection of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)
Sandhurst into the Royal Horse Guards in 1920. Five years later he and his brother bought the Barton Stud near Bury St Edmunds and the following year they acquired Anglesey Abbey. Here, and at his subsequent houses, Bakeham House and later at South Walsham Hall, he formed a remarkable collection of oil paintings, watercolours, gouaches, miniatures and sketches. Lord Fairhaven bequeathed a comprehensive collection of 120 flower paintings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (the Broughton Bequest), including 12 Months of Flowers by van Huysum, over nine hundred individually mounted watercolours and gouaches and forty-four volumes of drawings by Ehret, RedoutĂŠ and many others. The works in this sale represent the variety and quality of what was one of the largest such collections amassed in the 20th century.