| De Groot, Adelaide Milton, 1876-1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Artist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1876-1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Nice, France; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
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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| decades | 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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