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Terrell, Herbert Leslie print view role Collector dates 1842-1909 city New York City state NY other cities Seabright, NJ; North Ridgeville, Lorain County, OH; Oberlin, OH; New Haven, CT; Greeneville, TN; Cleveland, OH; sex M historical notes Herbert Leslie Terrell was an art collector and patron, lawyer and businessman (Simmona & Slade, brokerage firm) with interests in the tobacco (American and Continental Tobacco Companies), railroad (Nickel Plate and Chihuahua & Pacific Railroad Companies), mining (Chihuahua, Helena, Croesus Gold, and El Potosl Mining Companies), liquor industries (Manhattan Spirit Company). Terrell was a member Union League, Lotos, University, Riding, Rahsapeague, Atlantic Yacht and Yale Clubs, Ohio and New England Societies, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Metropolitan Opera. He owned Rembrandt's "Portrait of Himself, " Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Lady Frances Finch," and Gainsborough's "Portrait of Isabel Howland," and Hoppner and Regnault's "Automedon and the Horses of Achilles" ("How we Strip Europe of Her Treasures of Art," New York Times, 2/19/1911) Terrell's Rembrandt "Portrait of Himself" was loaned to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909. decades of activity 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (bulk 1904-1914). see details... «  back