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historical notes
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Sue Duff Dalzell Jones was and art collector, the daughter of the Pittsburgh industrialist John H. Dalzell, and was married to the steel manufacturer Benjamin Franklin Jones (1868-1928).
She and her husband owned works of art by, among others, James Northcote, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J M W Turner, Sir William Beechey, Sir Henry Raeburn, Frans Hals, Meindert Hobbema, Rembrandt, Willem van de Velde, John Hoppner, Romney, Henri Harpignies, Emile van Marcke de Lummen, George Inness, Jean-Charles Cazin, Edward W. Redfield and Ernest Lawson.
After Jones died in 1941, 112 paintings from her collection were sold via Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. The two day auction reaped $ 463,520 and attracted the attention of both private collectors and galleries.
Among the buyers present at the sale included Billy Rose, Jacques Helft, and representatives from Duveen Brothers, the firm of Charles Sessler (Philadelphia), Scneider Gabriel Galleries, J. J. Gillespie Company, and Martimer Brandt Galleries.
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