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Lenox, James, 1800-1880 print view role Collector dates 1800-1880 city New York City state NY other cities Kirkcudbright, United Kingdom; sex M historical notes James Lenox was a lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, art and book collector. He never married and was the son of the Scottish born American merchant and real estate investor Robert Lenox (1759-1839). A graduate of Columbia College, Lenox was a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, Trustee of Princeton University, and member of the New York City Chamber of Commerce. His collection of paintings and books eventually became known as the Lenox Library and later became part of the New York Public Library in 1895. In 1913, the collection was moved to the central library. Lenox is mentioned in Frederick Baekeland's "Collectors of American Painting, 1813-1913," American Art Review, 3, Nov.-Dec. 1976. Lenox owned work by, among others, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, James Peale, Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, J M W Turner, and Albert Bierstadt. decades of activity 1840-1850 1850-1860 1860-1870 1870-1880 website http://books.google.com/books?id=k7HNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false updated 03/22/2024 12:09:28 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328 James Lenox papers, 1823-1936, bulk (1840-1880) (MssCol 1732) see details... New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328 Rich provenance collection, ca. 1845-1848 (MssCol 2568). see details... New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328 Lenox Library Records, 1866-1915 see details... New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328 Letters from James Lenox to Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, September, 1852 to December, 1860, concerning the purchase and reprinting of many volumes of Jesuit relations [microform] see details... The New-York Historical Society Manuscript Department [Newspaper clippings from the Evening Post and other New York City papers, and similar ephemera, concerning James Lenox, his family, and the Lenox library] see details... The New-York Historical Society Manuscript Department Minute book, 1863-1866. Home for Disabled Soldiers (New York, N.Y.) see details... The New-York Historical Society Manuscript Department Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Collection, ca. 1870-1890 see details... «  back