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Roger Brown
American artist and collector
Christina, engraving by Cornelis Visscher, 1650.
Christina
queen of Sweden
Katherine Dreier
American artist and collector
Julien Levy
American art dealer
Charles Lang Freer
American industrialist and art collector
Etta Cone
American art collector
Marjorie Merriweather Post
American business mogul and philanthropist
Claribel Cone
American art collector
A pioneering librarian
Belle da Costa Greene
American librarian and bibliographer
Andrew Mellon
American financier and politician
Charles Saatchi
British advertising executive and art collector
Gustave Caillebotte: Self-Portrait
Gustave Caillebotte
French painter
Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1906.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
American arts patron
Armand Hammer
American businessman
William Henry Vanderbilt, engraving
William Henry Vanderbilt
American industrialist and philanthropist
Wilhelm Uhde
German collector, art dealer, and writer
Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel
Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel
English noble
Annenberg, Walter H.,
Walter H. Annenberg
American publisher and philanthropist
Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim
American art collector
Arthur M. Sackler
American physician