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Priceless works have been secured for the exhibit from the collections of J. P. Morgan '89, Joseph E. Widener, Lord Duveen, Dr. Hamilton Rice, Mrs. Jesse J. Strauss, Jacob Hirsch, and many other individuals, as well as from various museums...
From the shop of Benveuto Cellini, 16th century Italian artist, there is shown the world-famous "Mermaid" pendant in gold, with baroque pearls, rubies, and enamel, made by Cellini for the Medici family and now in the possession of Lord Duveen...
Most spirited bidding in the furniture section last week was for a secretaire by Martin Carlin, cabinetmaker to Louis XVI, which Dealer Edward Duveen bought for $40,000. Top price among the paintings: $87,500, by Thomas Agnew & Sons for Pieter de Hooch's quiet Dutch Courtyard. Less costly but equally decorous were van de Velde's Calm Sea with Shipping ($10,500) and Metsu's Woman Cleaning Fish ($14,000). Victor Rothschild's ancestors apparently did not go in for nudes...
Second only in importance to London's British Museum is London's Tate Gallery, an institution which, since its founding 40 years ago and particularly since it has been taken under the munificent wing of Art Dealer Lord Duveen of Millbank, has become one of the great art collections of the world...
...Lord Duveen, Duveen Bros...