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Author Higonnet, Anne, 1959-

Title A museum of one's own : private collecting, public gift / Anne Higonnet
Published Pittsburgh, PA : Periscope Publishing ; New York, NY : distributed by Prestel Publishing, [2009]
©2009

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Description xvii, 241 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 x 28 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction -- Not a museum in the usual sense -- Acquisition on the highest terms -- Homes for history -- Self-portrait as a museum -- From private home to public museum -- Epilogue
Summary By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as museums in which they could dictate each and every detail of the arrangements. Drawing on a decade of research, Higonnet weaves letters, auction records and photographs into an engrossing account of the founding of both renowned and obscure collection museums. She also explores how these collectors stoked the tremendous values accorded paintings by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Also references the Hertford family, Sir Richard and Lady Amelie Wallace, Le duc d'Amale and others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index
Subject Art museums -- Collection management -- History.
Art museums -- History -- 19th century.
Art museums -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Private collections -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- Private collections -- Endowments.
Art -- Private collections -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Private collections -- History.
Collectors and collecting.
LC no. 2009938177
ISBN 1934772925
9781934772928