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...typewriter paper. The little picture, Agony in the Garden, was painted by Raphael. It is a panel from an altarpiece presented to the Museum 16 years ago by John P. Morgan, which can now be reassembled for the first time in 270 years. It was purchased from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph chairman, father-in-law of wealthy Composer Irving Berlin...
...Raphael panel was not the only purchase from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...
...time of the purchase (secretly made eight months ago), Mr. Mackay resigned as a trustee of the Museum. Either because he was attempting to deny that Clarence Mackay needed the money, or to reassure bankers who are supposed to have lent much money on the security of the Mackay art collection, Director Winlock added a statement to last week's announcement...
...understand that Mr. Mackay has parted with nothing else, and as far as I am aware the acquisition of these objects by the Museum does not indicate in any way an intention on his part to break up his collection...
...Majority stockholder is Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. Others: Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Robert Goelet, Frank Gray Griswold, Harry Payne Whitney's estate...