The wine merchant John Allnutt, who lived at Clapham Common and died in 1863 at the age of 89, was a significant patron and collector of British painting. Sir Thomas Lawrence painted both his portrait and his first wife's in 1798-9, and another of his second wife Eleanor, shown at the British Institution in 1843. As well as acquiring paintings by Turner and James Ward, Allnutt was one of John Constable 's first patrons outisde his own circle of friends, buying a small oil at the British Institution in 1814. He also collected watercolours, including major works by David Cox, and was the principal lender to the great 1823 loan exhibition organised by the Society of Painters in Water Colours (see Old Water-Colour Society).