| Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 1851-1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1851-1928 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Arrington, VA; Suffern, NY; Baltimore, MD; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Thomas Fortune Ryan was an art collector, patron and businessman. His business interests encompassed the Manhattan transit system, the American Tobacco Company, banking, the Equitable Life Assurance, the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, railroads, Mexican rubber plantations and diamond mines in the Belgian Congo. Ryan’s art collection largely consisted of Renaissance statuary and painting from Italy, France and Spain, however, it also included work of modern artists such as Auguste Rodin, French-Canadian artist M. Suzor-Cote, French-Canadian artist M. Suzor-Cote, Chinese cloisonné, tapestries, etchings, picture books, carpets, Etruscan urns and other pomps & gauds. As a Catholic philanthropist, Thomas Fortune Ryan endowed Sacred Heart Cathedral in Richmond, Virginia and St. Jean de Baptiste in New York City, as well as funding churches, schools, and hospitals in Virginia’s Nelson County. Ryan married twice his first wife, Ida M. Barry Ryan (d.1917) they were married in 1873 and had four sons together, his second wife was a prominent society woman of New York, Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler. Ryan married Cuyler a few weeks after the death of his first wife. |
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| decades | 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 |
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