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Died. Charles J. Duveen, 68, antique furniture connoisseur; younger brother of the late Lord Duveen (Duveen Brothers), with whom he was in business before establishing the U. S. firm, Charles of London; in Yonkers...
...India, Lord Reading; a Jewish Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jessel; a Jewish Home Secretary, Lord Samuel; and a Jewish Governor General of Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs. Jewish peers who swore allegiance to George VI at his Coronation were Lords Rothschild, Bearsted, Mancroft, Hirst, Swaythling, Reading and Duveen...
...announcement of the gift to Washington came as a popular surprise. Only persons long associated with him in this undertaking have been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres...
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
...company of softly shining young ladies and gents look on. This unselfconscious little idyll pleased Frederick the Great, Francophile King of Prussia, and he had his ambassador buy it. Until 1918 it hung in the collection of the royal family at Potsdam. Clevelander Beaumont got it through Dealer Joseph Duveen...