Burlington Fine Arts Club

The original Burlington clubhouse occupied the upper three floors of 177 Piccadilly from 1866 until 1869, when the club moved to its Savile Row premises, where it remained for the rest of its existence.

Part of the clubhouse doubled as a regular exhibition venue, the location having been selected for its proximity to Mayfair art dealers.

Notable members included James McNeill Whistler, John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Edwin Lutyens and the art collector Henry Vaughan who gave Constable's The Hay Wain to the nation.

With dwindling membership numbers after the war, the club's committee realised that it could no longer afford the lease on its clubhouse.

An attempt was made to raise the funds to move to 34 Great Cumberland Place, but this failed.