I did not mean to imply that that I thought Soames was collecting 20th century art in the 19th century.

The fact that he chose Bosinney to build a very modern house, leads me to believe that he has an interest in art that was modern for that particular time. This is one of the reasons I mentioned Whistler. It never occurred to me that he would be so avant garde as to collect post-impressionists in the 1880s.