High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. It was built by Sir John Soane as England's first purpose-built public art gallery and opened in 1817. The Gallery is a registered charity. The Dulwich collection was first put together by Sir Francis Bourgeois, originally from Switzerland, and his business partner, Frenchman Noel Desenfans. The two ran a successful art dealership in London and in 1790 were commissioned by the King of Poland, Stanislaus Augustus, to put together a "royal collection", which the monarch lacked and thought would encourage fine arts in Poland. Touring around Europe buying fine art, Bourgeois and Desenfans took five years to put the collection together, but by 1795 Poland had been partitioned divided up by its stronger neighbours and no longer existed.

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