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Alicia Koplowitz, 7th Marquise of Bellavista

She is known to have one the most important art collections in Europe art collector, her favourite pieces are by Goya, Picasso, Modigliani, Van Gogh, Rotko and De Kooning among others.

Giovanni Volpato

Volpato made excavations in Ostia (1779, with the antiquarian Thomas Jenkins), Porta San Sebastiano (1779) and Quadraro (1780); and sold sculptures to king Gustav III of Sweden (1784), to the Vatican Museums, and to the British collector, Henry Blundell.

Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński

Michal Hieronim Leszczyc-Suminski (Born September 30, 1820 in Ośno - Died 26 May 1898 in Tharandt) was a Polish botanist, painter and art collector.

Simon Keenleyside

He has work in private and corporate collections throughout the world including The BOC Group, Comme des Garcons, Hiscox, Marsh McLennan, Aspen Re, the Mario Testino collection and the David Roberts (art collector) Collection.

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (February 10, 1853, in Mainz - May 8, 1933, in Salzburg) was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector.

Wilhelm Hansen

Wilhelm Hansen (art collector), Danish businessman and art collector, founder of the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen

William Powhida

Topics have included creating an "enemies" list as well as letters addressed to contemporary curators (such as Zach Feuer Gallery), collectors and critics, requesting recognition.

Wim Delvoye

However after two years of discussion with David Walsh, Delvoye agreed to construct a custom Cloaca built specifically for the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.


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André Hallet

He is the father of Jean-Pierre Hallet, an internationally recognized human-rights activist (on the behalf of the Efe pygmies in the Ituri forest of the Congo) who also lived in the Congo and Rwanda and was also an avid art collector.

Auchincloss

Lily Auchincloss (1922–2008), American, journalist, philanthropist, and art collector

Baiersdorf

Joseph's brother James who later followed him to the United States, is the grandfather of American art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim.

Bernard Arnault

Arnault is a noted art collector and is known for his contemporary collection, which includes pieces by Picasso, Yves Klein, Henry Moore and Andy Warhol.

Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil

Gallery records show that it was acquired from Mahmoud Kahlil, an Egyptian art collector whose collection is now housed in the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo.

Candace Wheeler

The Board of Women's Managers was led by the Chicago art collector Bertha Palmer, who worked closely with the curator Sarah Tyson Hallowell on the art for the women's building.

Castello di Volpaia

For 13 years until 1993, with the help of Luciano Pistoi, a famous Italian gallerist and art collector, Volpaia was the highlight for contemporary art in Italy.

Charles Lang Freer House

The house was originally built for the industrialist and art collector Charles Lang Freer, whose gift of the Freer Gallery of Art began the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Chester Harding House

According to the Lawyers Pictorial Register, published by the Boston Bar Association in 1981, in the middle of the 19th century, the building was bought by Dr. Henry C. Angell, an art collector.

Christopher Henrik Holfeldt Tostrup

He was the grandfather of art collector and philanthropist Christopher Tostrup Paus.

Clan Mackenzie

During the Wars in India, Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.

Clark Art Institute

"The Clark" was created by entrepreneur, soldier, explorer, and prominent art collector Robert Sterling Clark, and his wife, Francine.

David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling

He was a bridge player, an art collector and a supporter of the Royal National Theatre.

David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet

He is an avid art collector and owns the world's top collection of John Constable.

Ed Kerns

Kerns first gained exposure in 1972, when he was commissioned by art collector Larry Aldrich to paint 100 paintings over the course of the year as gifts.

Edward Warren

Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928), known as Ned Warren, American art collector and writer

Ernest Thiel

Ernest Jacques Thiel (Norrköping 18 August 1859 – Stockholm 6 January 1947) was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thielska galleriet (the Thiel Gallery).

Eugène Secrétan

Eugène Secrétan, or M.E. Secrétan (1836, Saulx – 1899, Dives-sur-Mer), was a French industrialist and art collector.

Félix Dehau

Félix-Étienne Dehau (1846–1934), Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, was a scion of a bourgeois family of Lille, France, an art collector, a patron of schools, orphanages and churches, and for 62 years, from 1872 to 1934, mayor of the commune of Bouvines.

George A. Lucas

George A. Lucas, an art collector and agent for American patrons, was born in Baltimore in 1824 as the seventh son of Fielding Lucas, Jr., who owned a publishing and stationary company.

George E. Hibbard

George E. Hibbard (1924–1991) was a Saint Louis-born American art collector, and renowned expert on Tibetan art and culture.

Iris Cantor

Subsequent to his business success, Mr. Cantor became a well regarded art collector, and most notably had acquired over 750 sculptures and drawings by Auguste Rodin, and many American and European masters' paintings.

Jacobszoon

Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen (1626–1666), rich Dutch cloth merchant, officer in the civic guard, real estate developer, alderman and art collector

James Ballard

James F. Ballard (1851–1931), American entrepreneur and art collector

Joachim Wasserschlebe

Joachim Wasserschlebe (1 May 1709, Salzwedel, Margraviate of Brandenburg - 13 March 1787, Wassersleben estates) was a German-Danish diplomat, politician, councillor, patron of the arts and art collector.

Klitgården

The town of Skagen and a circle of prominent cultural figures including the writer Klaus Rifbjerg and art collector and founder of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Knud W. Jensen, collaborated to raise the funds needed to realize the plans.

La Mousmé

After May 1909 the painting was sold to Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), German playwright and art collector of Munich.

Lester Wunderman

An avid art collector, he has donated nearly 300 works of Dogon artifacts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the balance of his Dogon collection to the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, France.

Marcell Nemes

Marcell or Marczell Nemes (4 May 1866, Jánoshalma - 28 October 1930, Budapest) was a Hungarian financier, art collector and art dealer.

Mark Ford

Mark M. Ford, American author, entrepreneur, publisher, real estate investor, filmmaker, art collector, and consultant to the direct marketing and publishing industries

Mary Benedict Cushing

As an art collector, she was known for her collection including Paul Cézanne, Winslow Homer, William Nicholson, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Walter Sickert, and Pavel Tchelitchew.

No Contest II

Erich Dengler, the son of Manferd Dengler (a prominent Nazi during the rule of Adolf Hitler in Germany), poses as an Art Collector, Eric Dane, in order to take over the Holman Museum where he holds the occupants including Sharon Bell and Jack Terry who are shooting a film.

Pierre Grimod du Fort

Pierre Grimod du Fort (1692 – October 1748) was a fermier général and art collector under Louis XV, and a member of the famous Grimaud family.

Pietro Cussida

He was an art collector and patron, known for his patronage of Caravaggisti artists, including Jusepe de Ribera and Dirck van Baburen.

Robert Gould Shaw III

Nancy gave the portrait to Alfred Edward Goodey, art collector and Shaw III's partner, and it was later sold in England in 2011 for £23,000.

Sara Kishon

Sara Kishon (October 8, 1931 – March 24, 2002) was a pianist, art collector, and the wife of the Israeli author and satirist Ephraim Kishon.

Scheyer

Galka Scheyer (1889-1945), German-American art collector and painter

Scott Black

Scott M. Black, American investor, philanthropist and art collector

Sister Parish

In addition to the White House, Parish's clients included the philanthropist Jane Engelhard and the socialite and art collector Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Annette de la Renta, Alice Rogers, Mrs. Charles Percy, were also clients.

The David Collection

The David Collection (Danish: Davids Samling) is a museum of fine and applied art in Copenhagen, Denmark, built around the private collections of lawyer, businessman and art collector C. L. David.

Umewaka Minoru I

A prolific teacher of Noh in the Meiji period, he taught a variety of people including the painter Kōgyo, the writer Ezra Pound, and the scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa.

Wächter

Max Waechter (born 1924), English businessman, art collector, and philanthropist

Was Justice Denied?

The second case involved the 1992 conviction of Beverly Monroe for the shooting death of her wealthy, long-time lover, 60-year-old art collector Roger de la Burde in Powhatan, Virginia.

Wernher baronets

It was created on 2 August 1905 for the German-born Randlord and art collector Julius Wernher.

William Beckford

William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), English novelist, art collector, travel writer and politician

Winfield House

Later the Georgian villa was known as St Dunstan's, because of the distinctive clock that hung in front of it, purchased by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford when material from St Dunstan-in-the-West was auctioned off in 1829-30 prior to the church's demolition.