Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939

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role

Collector Dealer/Gallery

dates

1869-1939

city

London

other cities

New York, NY; Paris, France;

country

England

sex

M

historical notes

Baron Joseph Duveen was an art dealer and the president of the firm Duveen Brothers. He was the son and nephew of the founders of the Duveen Brothers firm Joel Joseph and Henry Duveen respectively and took over the business after their deaths.

Baron Joseph Duveen was the First Baron of Millbank 1933 (Knighted 1919) and created a baronet 1926.

Duveen collaborated with the critic and scholar Bernard Berenson and aided, among others, Henry Clay Frick, J. Paul Getty, William Randolph Hearst, Henry E. Huntington, J.P. Morgan, Samuel H. Kress, Andrew Mellon and John D. Rockefeller in forming their collections.

Duveen donated a new building to the Tate to house collection of modern and foreign paintings, a new gallery for early Italian painting to the National gallery, and a wing for the Elgin marbles at the British Museum.

decades
of activity

1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940

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10/31/2024 13:33:24

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Duveen Brothers records, 1910-1933.	see details...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Please see individual record for location	Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964	see details...