He was also the brother of the famous portrait painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who is most famous for painting Frankin Delano Roosevelt at the moment when he collapsed and died.
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Following World War II, the Mellon family asked to retrieve the collection, but this was refused.
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Avinoff also made six trips to Jamaica which he described as "a dreamland of tropical splendor" between 1926 and 1940, five of them with Nicholas Shoumatoff, the son of his sister Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who Avinoff largely served as a father figure for.
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