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Joseph Duveen 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank

Duveen, Joseph

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

Duveen, Joseph ( Baron Duveen of Millbank) (1869–1939). English art dealer, patron, and philanthropist. In 1886 he entered the firm of his father, Sir Joseph Duveen (1843–1908), and with his enormous energy, larger-than-life personality, and great gift for salesmanship expanded it into the biggest firm of art dealers in the world, operating on an unprecedented scale. He employed Bernard Berenson to give his seal of authenticity to the Renaissance paintings he sold and he was the main agent in forming the collections of such fabulously wealthy Americans as Frick, Kress, and Andrew Mellon. Duveen's benefactions to the arts were also on a princely scale. In addition to giving many pictures to national collections, he paid for extensions or new galleries at the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery, and the British Museum (to house the Elgin Marbles). He also bore the cost of decorations at the Wallace Collection and of Rex Whistler's murals at the Tate Gallery and endowed a professorship in the history of art at London University.
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