Word: connoisseur
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hundred thousand dollars has been left to the Fogg Art Museum by the will of Henry E. Wetzel, art connoisseur, traveller, and collector, who died a few weeks ago at Neuilly, France, while serving with the Red Cross. The will, which was made on March 4, 1918, was filed in Boston Tuesday; it provides for an additional hundred thousand dollars to be given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The gift to the Fogg Museum is to be expended under the direction of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Arthur Pope, and Edward W. Forbes, all of Cambridge...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1895. He has lectured at Harvard on the theory of design since 1899, and has written a book on the same subject. Dr. Ross is well-known as an art connoisseur. The lecture will be open to undergraduates only...