DUVEEN

Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating th e Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869193 9). Regarded as the most influentialor, in some circles, notoriousdealer of the twentieth century, Duveen established himself sell ing the European masterpieces of Titian, Botticelli, Giotto, and Vermeer to newly and lavishly wealthy American businessmenJ. P. Mo rgan, John D...[Read more]