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De Groot, Adelaide Milton, 1876-1967

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role Collector Artist
dates 1876-1967
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesNice, France;
sex F
historical notes Adelaide Milton de Groot was an artist, art collector, patron, philanthropist and genealogical hobbyist.

De Groot owned work by, among others, J. B. C. Corot, Gustave Courbet, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Jacob Jordaens, Maurice Utrillo, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, William Merritt Chase, Alfred Sisley. Winslow Homer, Francois Boucher, George Bellows, Peter Kohlbeck, Gaston Lachaise, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, August Rodin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugène  Delacroix, Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent Van Gogh.

De Groot lent works of art from her collection for exhibition and she left her collection and a large sum of money to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Metropolitan Museum deaccessioned a portion of her collection in 1973.

De Groot was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Huguenot Society. Her parents were William de Groot (merchant, 1825–1898) and Elizabeth [King Hawley] de Groot (1833–1926), her sister was Elizabeth Hawley de Groot, later Countess d’Aspremont (1873–1901). She also had three half-sisters: Mary (1851–), Fanny (1851–), and Grace (1853–).
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Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details
The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
10 East 71st Street
Adelaide Milton De Groot artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation. see details...
The New-York Historical Society
Manuscript Department
De Groot family papers, 1837-1965. see details...
The New-York Historical Society
Manuscript Department
De Groot family photograph collection[graphic].. see details...
New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328
De Groot family genealogical research papers, 1936-1966. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Milch Gallery records, 1911-1995 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969, bulk 1919-1968 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Perls Galleries records, 1935-1997. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978 (bulk 1913-1974) see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968 (bulk 1892-1953). see details...