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Henry Clay Frick [88] 1943 oil on canvas Gerald Kelly: 1879–1972 Portrait of Henry Clay Frick [89] 1924 oil on canvas Jacques de Lajoue, attributed 1687–1761 Seven Decorative Panels [90] c. 1730–1740 oil on canvas Georges de La Tour, studio of 1593–1652 The Education of the Virgin [91] c. 1650 oil on canvas Thomas Lawrence: 1769–1830
A 2000 poll by Travel Holiday magazine ranked the Frick Collection as the third-best art museum in the U.S. [427] Upon the museum's 75th anniversary in 2010, a Wall Street Journal critic wrote that, although the museum lacked major shows and had not undergone a high-profile renovation, it "quietly attracts a steady stream of about 300,000 ...
The complex, located on 5.5 acres (22,000 m 2) [1] of lawn and gardens in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, includes Clayton, the restored Frick mansion; The Frick Art Museum; The Car and Carriage Museum; the Greenhouse; the Frick children's playhouse; and The Café. The site welcomes over 100,000 visitors a year. Admission is free.
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Allegory of Painting, also known as The Art of Painting: 1666–67 or c. 1666–68 [8] Oil on canvas, 100 × 120 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: Mistress and Maid, also known as Lady with her Maidservant Holding a Letter: 1667/68 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 78.7 cm Frick Collection, New York
The painting passed through several private hands before being auctioned by Christie's in 1906 and purchased by Sir Hugh Lane, [5] from whom it was eventually acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1915. [3] The art critic Charles Ricketts, writing in 1910, recalled the 1906 rediscovery of a portrait by Titian:
It will take more than just a trust fund to get them to sell you that painting.
Helen Clay Frick founded the Frick Art Reference Library—renamed in 2024 to the Frick Art Research Library—in 1920 as a memorial to her father, Henry Clay Frick, [1] who had died in 1919. [2] Its first home was the bowling alley of the Henry Clay Frick House ; [ 3 ] the library's staff worked in the house's basement. [ 4 ]