| Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Scholar/Critic/Expert Collector Dealer/Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1822-1904 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Samuel Putnam Avery was an art collector, copper and wood engraver, art dealer, connoisseur and advisor to important collectors. Eventually Avery gave up commercial engraving and devoted himself exclusively to collecting and dealing art; particular specialty being old Dutch paintings and romantic French landscape painters. A founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, many of the paintings in that collection were selected by him. He gave notable collections of architectural books to Columbia University, and of engravings and etchings to the New York Public Library. Works of art once owned by Avery were lent to the American Paintings section of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909: Portrait of George Washington - William Birch Samuel Putnam Avery was married to Mary Ann Ogden and together they had two sons: Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920) who also became an art dealer and collector; and Henry Ogden Avery (1852-90) who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1852-90) and worked as an architect. |
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| decades | 1850-1860 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1900 |
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