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Born March 20, 1826 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died May 21, 1897 (aged 71) • London • England • (Died on this day)
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British painter
Sir Wallis Budge
British curator
Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet
Sir Richard Wallace, Baronet
British art collector
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon
French artist
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
French art dealer and publisher
Richard Garnett
English librarian
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and artist
Roger Fry
British art critic and painter
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
Clive Bell
British critic
Charles Locke Eastlake
British author
Prinsep's Ghat, Kolkata; the archway was erected in memory of James Prinsep.
James Prinsep
English antiquarian
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
American financier
Enwezor, Okwui
Okwui Enwezor
Nigerian-born art curator
Andrew Mellon
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Louis I, detail from an oil painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Louis I
king of Bavaria
S.H. Kress
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Stavros Spyros Niarchos
Greek businessman
Henry Clay Frick.
Henry Clay Frick
American industrialist and philanthropist
Okakura Kakuzō
Japanese art critic