Watson, D. T. (David Thompson), 1844-1916 |
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1844-1916 |
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Pittsburgh |
| state | PA | | other cities | Washington, PA; Cambridge, MA; Sewickley, PA; |
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Watson was a businessman, lawyer (Watson & Freeman) and art collector.
Included among Watson’s clients were Henry Clay Frick, A. M. Byers, Henry Phipps, Andrew Carnegie, and W. H. Vanderbuilt. Watson was part of a litigation team representing the United States in its purchase of Alaska from Russia.
The Watson collection included work by Van Dyck, Murillo, Monet, Constable, Morland, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Decamps, Courbet, Corot, Rousseau, Diaz and Troyon.
Part of Watson's collection sold in April 1917 at a New York auction via the American Art Association.
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decades
of activity | 1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
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Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail
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Allegheny County Bar Association records, 1870-1981.
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The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library
10 East 71st Street |
Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence 1882-1929, undated. |
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