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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = James Anderson
| name = Rose
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FRSL
| image = File:Rose,_James_Anderson.jpg
| birth_date = 1819
| death_date = 1890
| address = 11 Salisbury St., Strand, WC; and 1 Wandsworth Common
| occupation = legal<br />collector
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1868.02.04
| elected_AI = 1868
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Society of Literature
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
proposed as 1868.01.22<br />James in A3, John in printed list, and this underlined in A31/2/4 BUT have kept James as fits with other information in notes and publications<br />James (corrected from John) in A6:2
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Mr. James Anderson Rose has invited the members of the various Conservative ... on Saturday next, in the grounds of his residence, near Wandsworth-common Station.<br />Aug 11 1883 Evening News<br /><br />James Anderson Rose (legal; collector; British; Male; 1819 - 1890)<br />Also known as<br />Rose, James Anderson<br />Address<br />Wandsworth Common, London<br />Biography<br />Solicitor; 1862-75, in partnership with Ralph Thomas junior (q.v.); represented Whistler in the famous case with Ruskin, and also acted for Sandys, Morris, Marshall and Faulkner (William Morris's firm) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Collector, especially of prints by Whistler and Meryon, engraved portraits, English watercolours and paintings by contemporary French and British artists, notably Frederic Sandys, ceramics and oriental material. Prominent member of the Arundel Club; lender to a number of important exhibitions (see Hopkinson for details). Print sale at Sotheby's, 27 June 1876 and ten following days (for BM purchases see 1876,0708.16 to 143; other sales from his collection: 1-2 May 1861, 12 April 1862, 11 May 1887, 6-7 May 1891,15 May 1891, 11 November 1891, 1 December 1891. No collector's mark.<br />Bibliography<br />Martin Hopkinson, 'James Anderson Rose, first major collector of Whistler etchings', Print Quarterly, XXX 2013, pp.409-22.<br /><br />The solicitor James Anderson Rose, who acted for the Wandsworth Common Preservation Association and lived near by, contested the railway owners’ right to sell this land as surplus when they tried to do so in 1867. After a lawsuit, Rose bought the site from them with the intention of preserving it as an open space. This he was able to do during his lifetime, but shortly after his death in 1890 the land came on the open market. <br /><br />James Anderson Rose, a solicitor with an office off the Strand and a house on Wandsworth Common<br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Modern Pictures and Water-Colour Drawings of James Anderson Rose, Esq., Deceased, Late of Salisbury Street, Strand, and Wandsworth Common: Which (by Order of the Executrix) Will Be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Christ (Paperback) <br /><br />
=== House Publications ===

== Related Material Details ==
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