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Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (14 October 1869 – 25 May 1939), known as Sir Joseph Duveen, Baronet, between 1927 and 1933, was a British art dealer who was considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time.
The building was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven, across the street from one of Kahn's earliest buildings, [3] the Yale University Art Gallery, built in 1953. The Yale Center for British Art was completed after Kahn's death in 1974, and opened to the public on April 15, 1977.
John Singer Sargent's portrait of Ellen Terry. Duveen became wealthy, and was generous in benefaction of art galleries. He was a subscriber to the public purchase of Velasquez's "Rokeby Venus" for the National Gallery in 1906, and in the same year he presented John Singer Sargent's portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, which he bought at the Irving sale at Christie's in 1905 for £1200, to ...
The British Museum's Duveen Gallery was built shortly before the Second World War [19] and today its plain brick flank wall is the view from the house rather than the gardens of the museum, which was such an important consideration in Thomas Leverton's original designs for the house. [17]
It was formally the first painting to enter Yale's collection. The smaller version on copper was acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery in 1954 from Mrs. Anna R. Butler, a donor from Bedford, NY who also founded the Arthur W. Butler Memorial Sanctuary in Mount Kisco. It was possibly commissioned by Yale himself.
Henry Joseph Duveen (26 October 1854 [1] – 15 January 1919) was a British art dealer who co-founded the firm of Duveen Brothers with his brother, Joseph. Duveen was born in Meppel, Netherlands, the son of Eva (van Minden) and Joseph Henoch Duveen, who were both from Dutch Jewish families.
April 11 – Willard Huntington Wright, American art critic and detective-story writer as S. S. Van Dine (b. 1888) April 19 – János Vaszary, Hungarian painter and graphic artist (b. 1867) [14] May 25 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (b. 1869) June 3 – Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, English art collector (b. 1888) [15]
After a competitive auction it was purchased by art dealer Joseph Duveen for $360,000, then the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting in the United States. Duveen later sold it to Canadian art collector Frank P. Wood for $450,000, and Wood then donated it to the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 1959 the painting was somewhat damaged ...