Constantine Alexander Ionides
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Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
) was a major 19th century British art patron and collector of Greek ancestry, the son of the collector Alexander Constantine Ionides
Alexander Constantine Ionides
Alexander Constantine Ionides was a British art patron and art collector and patron of Greek ancestry.-Life:...
. He is best known for his bequest of 82 oil paintings to the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
. He is buried in Hove
Hove
Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast...
.