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historical notes
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Robert Dawson Evans was a financier, merchant (United States Rubber Company, United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company) and art collector.
Together with his wife, Maria Antoinette Evans, nee Hunt, he formed an art collection.
The Evans Collection included work by, among others, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Théodore Rousseau, Jean Jacques Henner, Anton Mauve, Theophile Emile Achille de Bock, Charles François Daubigny, Jean-François Millet, Eugène Fromentin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean Charles Cazin, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Jacob Jordaens, Abraham Vinck, Theophile Emile Achille de Bock, Sir Henry Raeburn, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Ferdinand Bol, and works of art attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani and Raphael.
Mrs. Evans left the bulk of the collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and funded the Evans Wing.
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