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Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers

Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo and Willemina about gardening ideas, color harmonies and the benefits of working in a garden.

Earl L. Stendahl

Earl L. Stendahl (born Earl Leopold Steendahl; December 11, 1888 - May 18, 1966) was a pioneering American art dealer known for promoting California Impressionism, modern and pre-Columbian art.

Georges Wildenstein

Nathan bought Georges a separate business at 21 rue de la Boétie where Georges was a partner of dealer Paul Rosenberg who represented Picasso, and he also opened a gallery on New Bond Street in London.

Jake Perrine

His sole credit for voice acting is in the PC game Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand, where he plays the devious art dealer / artifact smuggler Taylor Sinclair.

Jean Walter

He married in 1941 Domenica Guillaume, the widow of art dealer Paul Guillaume.

Marie-Thérèse Walter

From 1927 onwards, Walter lived close to Picasso's family, who lived in an apartment provided by and next door to his art dealer and friend, Paul Rosenberg, in Rue La Boétie.

Robert Isaacson

Upon Isaacson's return to New York, he became an art dealer almost by accident, taking on Edwin Hewitt's gallery at the request of mutual friend Lincoln Kirstein.

Russian Schoolroom

Steven Spielberg bought the painting from Judy Goffman Cutler, a noted art dealer who specialized in American illustrators, in 1989 for $200,000.

Walther Amelung

With art dealer Paul Arndt (1865-1937), he was co-editor of Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Skulpturen, which was a survey of Greek and Roman sculpture.

Wheat Field with Cypresses

In a letter to his brother, Theo, written on 2 July 1889, Vincent described the painting: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto like the Monticellis, and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too."


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1762 in poetry

James Bisset (died 1832), Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet

A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

An art dealer named Antonio Monatti buys the painting for $5,000 and urges Peter to bring Chris to Manhattan, where he could become a famous artist.

Adolphe-Félix Cals

Art dealer Pierre–Firmin Martin, known as "Father Martin", liked his work, and Cals went on to paint portraits of Martin and his wife (now in the "Musée Eugène Boudin" in Honfleur).

Alexia Barlier

Alexia's mother was from New Zealand a ballet dancer and yoga teacher and her father was art dealer in Paris, hence her dual nationality.

Algernon Graves

Graves married the daughter of an art dealer, John Clowes Grundy from Manchester, England and they had a son, Herbert Seymour Graves, who later assisted Graves with later editions of the Dictionary of Artists series.

Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green

McAlpine founded his own publishing house in London in the 1960s, and was variously an art dealer, art collector, zookeeper (in Broome, Western Australia), horticulturist, aviculturist, agriculturist, gardener and passionate traveller.

Art press

In her first editorial, Catherine Millet (co-founder with the art dealer Daniel Templon, and editor-in-chief) explained why she refused a journalistic approach, too much relying on anecdote; that she no more wanted an avant-garde review that erased art history than she wanted a review on the history of art longing for antiques.

Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke

Johnston worked for the family firm Bovril Ltd from 1955 to 1971, and has been a fine art dealer in watercolours of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries since 1971.

Bernard and the Genie

Written by comedy writer Richard Curtis, this comic fantasy takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights and follows Alan Cumming as art dealer Bernard Bottle who is not having a good day.

Charlotte York Goldenblatt

She is an art dealer and Smith College graduate (where she lived in Haven-Wesley House and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, although in real life Smith has no sororities) with a Connecticut blue-blooded upbringing.

Cromek

Robert Cromek (1770–1812) an English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur

Curt Valentin

Curt Valentin (5 October 1902, Hamburg, Germany – 19 August 1954, Forte dei Marmi, Italy) was a German-born American art dealer known for handling modern art, particularly sculpture, and works classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime in pre-war Germany.

Eugénie Söderberg

In 1940 Eugenie Söderberg came to the USA as a reporter for Scandinavian newspapers and in the following year she married the well-known art dealer and Plato scholar Hugo Perls.

Glimcher

Arne Glimcher (born 1938), American art dealer, film producer and director

Gsell

Georg Gsell (1673–1740), Swiss Baroque painter, art consultant and art dealer

Guillermo Gracida, Jr.

Gracida also enjoyed a long and successful career playing for Les Diables Bleus, a team sponsored by fine art dealer Guy Wildenstein.

Hildebrand Gurlitt

His father Cornelius Gurlitt was an architect and art historian, his brother Willibald a musicologist, his sister Cornelia a painter and his cousin Wolfgang was an art dealer as well.

Ivan Lindsay

Ivan James Lindsay (born 8 July 1962) is a British private art dealer in Old Masters and Russian paintings who has established world record prices for many leading artists such as Canaletto, Goya and Hobbema.

Jean Gimpel

Gimpel was one of three sons of a French father, the art dealer René Gimpel, and an English mother, Florence, the youngest sister of Lord Duveen.

Jodenbreestraat

Rembrandt lived in this street from 1631 to 1635, at the home of art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh, and again from 1639 to 1656, in his own house, built in 1606 and standing today.

Le tatoué

In an artist’s studio, rich Parisian art dealer Félicien Mézeray sees the old soldier Legrain, whose back has a tattoo by Modigliani.

Léopold Zborowski

Léopold Zborowski was Amedeo Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, organizing his expositions and letting the Leghorn artist use his house as an atelier.

Ludovisi Throne

Thomas Hoving, once director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recollects being told by an art dealer in Italy that the twin throne in Boston was the work of the great faker Alcide Dossena.

Maecenas Foundation

Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication.

Marcell Nemes

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

Méret Oppenheim

Lenders included singer David Bowie, the Swiss retail tycoon and art dealer Ursula Hauser, and the Dutch diamond magnate Sylvio Perlstein.

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

As a complication, Nick's ballerina girlfriend Tatiana (Tanya Jackson) is kidnapped by a gang working for Alex into order to pressure her father, the head curator of the Hermitage Museum, into helping steal valuable artwork for crooked art dealer Dr. Vestry (Serge Houde).

Peintre Celebre

Bred and owned by Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001), the renowned French art dealer and highly successful horseman, Peintre Celebre came from a line of outstanding thoroughbreds.

Philip Anglim

His father, a Catholic of Irish descent, worked as a patent attorney, while his mother, Paule Anglim, is of French and Jewish descent and is a San Francisco art dealer.

Philip II, Duke of Pomerania

The art dealer Philip Hainhofer from Augsburg was responsible for the procurement of many works of art.

Pierre Grassou

Pierre Grassou de Fougères is a mediocre painter who lives off painting forgeries commissioned by an old swindler and art-dealer named Elias Magus.

Portrait of Père Tanguy

Writer Victoria Finlay describes him as looking more like a workman than an art dealer.

Richmond District, San Francisco

The district was given its name by Australian immigrant and art dealer George Turner Marsh, one of the neighborhood's earliest residents, who called his home "the Richmond House" after Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

Robert Appelbaum

He has worked as a steel mill laborer, a director of a Berlitz School of Languages, an art dealer, and a limousine driver as well as teacher, writer, and editor.

Sainty

Guy Stair Sainty (born 1950), art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry

Sandra Nunnerley

As a young adult, she moved to Australia to study architecture at Sydney University; also in Sydney she worked for the art dealer Kym Bonython, who, through his passion for jazz, exposed Nunnerley to the likes of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, sparking a lifelong love of music.

Simon Segal

He left for Toulon in 1926 and met Bruno Bassano, an art dealer who became a close friend until Segal's death.

Small Time Crooks

She asks an art dealer named David (Hugh Grant) to train her and Ray so they can fit in with the American upper class.

Smith Haven Mall

One of the developers was Leonard Holzer who was married to art dealer Jane Holzer and the art work originally cost $350,000.

Stanislas Lami

On 24 June 1891 he married Émilie, the daughter of Charles Sedelmeyer, art dealer and editor.

Tara Mandal

Keen to please her, Dev got Minnie Chandra (Poppy Jhakra) to pose as a London art dealer who was interested in purchasing some work.

The Holy Infants Embracing

A 2007 special titled "Da Vinci's Lost Code" on the Discovery Channel, featuring an interview with Dutch art dealer who bought it, stated the figure was $1500.

Ugo Mulas

While photographing the 1964 Venice Biennale, Mulas met several American artists, art critics, and the art dealer Leo Castelli.

Uylenburgh

Gerrit van Uylenburgh (1625–1679), or Gerrit Uylenburgh, Dutch art-dealer