Speyer, Edgar |
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Collector |
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dates
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1862-1932 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Frankfurt, Germany; London; Overstrand, Norfolk, United Kingdom; |
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historical notes
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Edgar Speyer was an art collector, and financier (senior partner of Speyer Brothers Bank).
Speyer's wife, nee Leonora von Stosch (1872-1956), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Speyer’s collection included Majolica jars, third century Greek marble statuary, Swiss Gothic and Burgundian tapestries, sixteenth century bronzes, work by English, Flemish, Italian old and modern masters, including, among others, work by Roger van der Weyden, John Singer Sargent, and Danese Cattaneo.
Speyer’s brother James Speyer was also an art collector and their family had been in banking since the sixteenth century.
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decades
of activity | 1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
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Collection Details |
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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Leonora Speyer papers, 1917-1941. |
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