When did Louis Huth become a partner of Frederick Huth & Co?
Louis Huth
Patricia Rubin has recorded that Salting’s ‘generous intentions were known to his friends and…influenced his collecting’,[41] and that 'Of ‘eclectic mind and sensitive eye’, Salting was ‘cosmopolitan’ in his acquisitions from the outset. Inspired and guided by his friend Louis Huth, he was soon buying oriental ceramics of great quality and in great quantity.’[42] In Salting’s collecting of ceramics, the influence of Huth – by whom ‘he had been introduced to the beauty of the art form’[43] – was pivotal, as is recorded by several writers. By his will, dated 14 October 1889, Salting also gave various pecuniary legacies, including £2,000 to Huth ‘who’, as Rubin has stated, ‘is credited with guiding salting’s early collecting’.[44] Huth’s death in 1905 would have caused the legacy to lapse, but Salting obviously took no steps then or in the remaining four years of his own life to re-write the will or to add a codicil to it.