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Whitney, William Collins, 1841-1904 print view role Collector dates 1841-1904 city New York City state NY other cities Conway, MA; Cambridge, MA; Washington, DC; New Haven, CT; sex M historical notes William Collins Whitney was a collector, lawyer, horseman, businessman, financier and political leader (United States Secretary of the Navy). Whitney's collection included decorative arts of fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries, two portrait by Van Dyck (Charles I and Willem de Villiers, Vicomte Grandisson), a bronze gate from the Doria Palace at Rome, silver hanging lamp, paintings attributed to Pinturicchio, Millet's "The Sowers", architectural carvings from palaces and cathedrals, Italian primitives, Persian rugs, tapestries and embroideries. decades of activity 1890-1900 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Museum of the City of New York Photograph Collections Interiors, W.C. Whitney, ca. 1899: Byron Company Collection see details... Museum of the City of New York Photograph Collections The William C. Whitney Residence, ca. 1901: Byron Company Collection see details... Cornell University Libraries Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections William C. Whitney scrapbook, 1899. see details... Harvard University Archives Pusey Library, Harvard Yard Letters to James C. Carter, 1876-1882. see details... Library of Congress Manuscript Division The Harry Payne Whitney collection of William Collins Whitney correspondence, 1757-1942 see details... Library of Congress Manuscript Division Thomas F. Bayard papers, 1780-1899 (bulk 1860-1898). see details... Massachusetts Historical Society 1154 Boylston Street William Eustis Russell papers, 1846-1920; bulk: 1888-1896. see details... Museum of the City of New York Photograph Collections The William C. Whitney Residence, 1900: Byron Company Collection see details... see also: Whitney, William Payne, 1876-1927 Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942 Whitney, Harry Payne, 1872-1930 Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918 «  back