they built a palace in Laeken (the present-day home of the Belgian royal family) as their seat. There, he assembled the beginnings of his vast art collection, which he took with him when the couple had to flee from Brussels to Vienna in 1793, due to the French Revolution and following his military defeat by invasion forces at the Battle of Jemappes. In Vienna, a palace adjoining the Hofburg, originally designed by Emanuel Teles Silva-Tarouca, was enlarged for them by architect Louis Montoyer. That palace is today called the Albertina, after Albert, and houses the collection he started. Only two-thirds of his collection survives, because one of the cargo ships bringing it from Brussels sank en route. After his return to Vienna, he used as an advisor Adam von Bartsch, the Curator of the Imperial prints collection and the greatest prints scholar of his age. After the early death of his wife in 1798 of typhus, he lived only for his art collection, which he bequeathed to his (wife's) nephew and adopted son Archduke Charles of Austria. Next door to his palace, in the Augustinerkirche, Albert had a famous memorial to his wife carved by Antonio Canova. The couple are buried in tombs 111 and 112 in the Tuscan Vault of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, with their hearts in urns 40 and 28 in the nearby Herzgruft, and their viscera in urns 75 and 63 of the Ducal Crypt in Vienna's cathedral. Ancestry References External links Albertina Museum (in German) 1738 births 1822 deaths People from Moritzburg People from the Electorate of Saxony German Roman Catholics Saxon princes Polish Prince Royals Dukes of Teschen House of Habsburg-Lorraine House of Wettin Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands German art collectors 18th-century art collectors 19th-century art collectors Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain Burials at the Imperial Crypt Burials at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna Albertine branch Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland) Sons of kings