George Eumorfopoulos

George Aristides Eumorfopoulos (18 April 1863 Liverpool – 19 December 1939 Chelsea Embankment),[1] was a British collector of Chinese, Korean and Near Eastern art.

His collection of Oriental art grew to an enormous size, obliging him to add a two-storey extension to the back of his Chelsea house.

In 1936 the Royal Academy's Burlington House arranged an international exhibition of Chinese art, to which end George Eumorfopoulos served on the organising committee and visited China to help select treasures from the Forbidden City, on loan from the Nationalist Government.

[6] After his death, his personal library found its way to the Courtauld Institute of Art and eventually to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

He was buried in the Greek Orthodox Necropolis at West Norwood Cemetery He was married to Julia Scaramanga (born 26 June 1864 in London, died 12 January 1944 at Crawley Down, Sussex).