Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose renovated Fifth Avenue mansion recently reopened.

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A rediscovered masterpiece in watercolour, “A Reception in the Harem” by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), unseen in public for over 60 years, was the top lot at Bonhams 19th Century & Orientalist ...

The restoration and refurbishing of the rooms, the many galleries, and the Garden Court required labor-intensive replacement ...

Born into a middle-class family, she received a through education in the arts and became a pupil of Camille Corot. She quickly adopted the plein-air painting technique characteristic of the ...

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Among them: photographs of Egyptian tomb paintings, Renaissance masterpieces and a 1878 auction catalog of his guardian Arosa’s collection, with works by Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and ...