These and the many other figures from the art world greatly enliven the second half of the book: there are not many laughs in banking.Jean Strouse, Morgan: American financier (The Harvill Press, London, 1999), 797 pp, 80 b/w ills, £25 (hb) ISBN 186046355XSubscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox.Find out how The Art Newspaper’s content platforms can help you reach an informed, influential body of collectors, cultural and creative professionals.
Even these are enmeshed in domestic and personal details.
There are thousands of images from The Morgan Library & Museum’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts available on this website. Morgan paid an enormous sum for this famous portrait, five times more than he had given for the Rembrandt portrait of Nicolaes Ruts (now in the Frick Collection) only three years earlier, hardly a balanced assessment of their relative importance.
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His marriage was a disappointment to him and he had mistresses for whom he provided very generously. In the exuberance of his buying he more resembled Catherine the Great, since, in his impatience, he often bought whole collections en bloc.His range was vast and his preference was for highly wrought decorative art. His father had set up the Morgan banking house, and between the two of them they became a force to be reckoned with. He was also a notable gemstone collector and was responsible for funding some of the world's greatest gemstone collections.
A good clubman, Morgan became the commodore of the New York Yacht Club, a title he liked so well that he used it for the rest of his life. Morgan’s collection was eventually so large and valuable that it would have been the most important of its time in America if it had either been kept there or had remained intact after his death. New York Public Library Digital Collections. He was familiar with the Royal Library at Windsor and Lord Hertford’s collection in Manchester Square (the Wallace Collection) and may have consciously modelled his own on them.
He married into the same milieu and his daughter once remarked that both her paternal and maternal antecedents doubly qualified her to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Other institutions angled for his attention, and he was notably generous and trusting in his philanthropy when he believed in the competence of his proteges, and rarely interfered with their plans. WorldCat record id: 79448959. He became involved in the affairs of the Metropolitan Museum at its founding, rather in a spirit of noblesse oblige, since he had no need of the social cachet that such a connection afforded New York society.
Although the well-educated Morgan was neither a scholar nor a connoisseur in the strictest sense of the word, he acquired, with a keen and intuitive eye, on a vast scale both in quality and scope. The London house is described as “a pawnbroker’s shop for Croesuses”. Morgan’s banking career coincided with a period of huge expansion and prosperity for the US, and, although the banking partners had setbacks, the general trend was an irresistible rise.Even so, at his death Morgan turned out less of a Croesus than his way of life had suggested and John D. Rockefeller famously remarked, on learning from a newspaper of Morgan’s net worth at his death, “and to think he wasn’t even a rich man.”Morgan spent prodigiously, which may explain why his fortune appeared so pitifully small to Rockefeller.
One pertinent example is the now disputed Gainsborough of the Duchess of Devonshire that was sold by the Morgan family and returned to Chatsworth in 1994.
John Pierpont Morgan was born in Connecticut on 17 April, 1837.
Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan 1910 George Charles Williamson British This limited luxury edition is one of six copies privately printed for J. Pierpont Morgan in London. We hope to reopen even more locations soon. Richter, Gisela M. A. By the late 1870s he had assembled a conventional New York "gentleman's collection" of drawings—mostly academic genre scenes depicting worlds far removed from modern industrial America.
Morgan calculated that it would cost him $3 million to transfer his collections to the US. These and the many other figures from the art world greatly enliven the second half of the book: there are not many laughs in banking.Jean Strouse, Morgan: American financier (The Harvill Press, London, 1999), 797 pp, 80 b/w ills, £25 (hb) ISBN 186046355XSubscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox.Find out how The Art Newspaper’s content platforms can help you reach an informed, influential body of collectors, cultural and creative professionals. Metropolitan Museum of Art. The library was designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and Whiteand cost $1.2 million.
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