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Abe Hummel. The senior partner in the firm was William F. Howe (1828 – September 2, 1902), a corpulent UK-born and later naturalized American trial lawyer who had served 18 months in jail in Britain for false representation, [1] and who was strongly suspected of possessing a more extensive criminal background.
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He became a naturalised American on 19 September 1863 in New York where he founded Howe and Hummel with Abraham Hummel (1849-January 21, 1926). Howe handled most of the firm's criminal work, participating in more than 600 murder trials in the course of his fifty-year career and winning a large but unstated proportion of them. He was noted for ...
Multiple members of the branch of the Hope family which became established in Amsterdam pursued an interest in acquiring fine paintings. [2] By the later part of the 18th century they owned a large number of works, and 372 of their paintings accompanied Henry Hope when he moved from the Dutch Republic to London in 1794. [6]
1898 paintings (23 P) S. 1898 sculptures (14 P) Pages in category "1898 in art" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect ...
Tamara de Lempicka, born Maria Górska, Polish-born Art Deco painter (died 1980) 17 May – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (died 1992) 21 May. Armand Hammer, American art collector (died 1990) John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (died 1976) 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (died 1972)
Wanting to take advantage of the boost in values, Goebel, the German parent company of the Hummel brand, sought to cash in. According to Kovel, "Back in the 70s and 80s they started all this ...
He was the son of Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel. His studies began in 1841 under Friedrich Preller at the Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar . After graduating, he made several study trips to England, Norway, Rügen and the Tyrol , lingering in Italy and Sicily until 1846.