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Morgan, Junius Spencer

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role Collector
dates 1867-1932
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesIrvington, NY; Concord, NH; Princeton, NJ; Paris, France;
sex M
historical notes Junius Spencer Morgan was a banker (Cuyler, Morgan & Co., retired 1906), art collector, and a nephew of John Pierpont Morgan, 1837–1913.

Morgan’s art collection included drawings, prints, engravings, majolica, Italian sculpture (bronzes, terra cotta, stucco, and marble), Italian Renaissance bronze plaquettes, textiles (India and Persia), paintings (Italian and Dutch Schools, Italian Renaissance furniture, sixteenth century Herat rugs, silver, and Virgiliana (gifted to Princeton University from 1896–1932). Paintings owned by Morgan were attributed to be by, among others, Lorenzo Monaco (active, 1370–1425), Simore da Bologna (active ca. 1370), Zanobi di Benedetto Strozzi (1412–1468), Sano di Pietro (1406–1481), Joos van Cleef (1520–1556), and Gerard Dou (1613–1675).

In 1919, William M. Ivins (1881–1961), of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, negotiated Morgan’s gift of his Dürer woodcut collection along with the purchase of Morgan’s Dürer engravings.

Works of art from Morgan’s collection sold at the Anderson Galleries, New York, on February 18, 1921.

Morgan was married to Josephine Adams Perry (1869–1963), and they had two children: Sarah Spencer Morgan (1893–1949) and Alexander Perry Morgan (1900–1968). Decorated by the French government with the Legion of Honor, he belonged to the Union, Racquet, and Princeton clubs.
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Princeton University
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
Morgan family papers, 1880–1940. see details...
Princeton University
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
List of editions of Virgil: typescript, 1895. see details...

see also:
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913