| Morgan, Junius Spencer | ||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||
| dates | 1867-1932 | |||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||
| other cities | Irvington, NY; Concord, NH; Princeton, NJ; Paris, France; | |||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||
| history |
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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| decades | 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:25 | |||||||||
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