Duveen of Millbank, Joseph Duveen, Baron

Duveen of Millbank, Joseph Duveen, Baron

▪ British art dealer
born October 14, 1869, Hull, Yorkshire, England
died May 25, 1939, London

      British international art dealer who wielded enormous influence on art tastes in his time, especially in the United States.

      The son of Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, of Dutch-Jewish descent, who established the family art business in London in 1877, Duveen began as a young man to buy and sell art on an unprecedented scale. Before 1914 he had established a virtual monopoly of Old Masters on both sides of the Atlantic. His principal headquarters were in New York City, where he built up the collections of such American collectors as Henry Clay Frick (Frick, Henry Clay), John D. Rockefeller (Rockefeller, John D.), and Andrew Mellon (Mellon, Andrew W.). Largely as a result of Duveen's efforts, the great Italian, Dutch, French, and English masters became widely represented in American museums.

      For his services to British art, for the Duveen Wing at the Tate Gallery in London, and for funding the addition of a gallery to the British Museum to house the Elgin Marbles, he was knighted in 1919, made a baronet in 1926, and raised to the peerage in 1933.

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