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Twice a year, on New Year's and on King George's birthday, good Britons are rewarded by their sovereign with titles, promotions, ribbons, For at least five years British art dealers have awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused...
Died. Roland F. Knoedler, 76, retired art dealer; of lung congestion; in Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer...
...Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries to Sir Joseph. They came back with the Delia Robbia plaque which shows the head of a tousled-haired young boy, mouth open as in adenoids. He is supposed...
Married. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of art-dealing Sir Joseph Duveen of London and Manhattan; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, eldest son of Ship Merchant Sir William Garthwaite who owns the S. V. Garthpool, the last square-rigged ocean-going ship to sail the British flag; in London...
Engaged. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of Sir Joseph Duveen, London and Manhattan art dealer; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, son of Sir William Garthwaite, British ship owner and banker; in London...