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Gould, George Jay, 1864-1923

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dates 1864-1923
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesLakewood, NJ; Mentone, France; Tarrytown, NY;
sex M
historical notes George Jay Gould was a collector, yachtsman, sportsman, railroad man, and son of railroad magnate and financier, Jay Gould (1836-1892).

The Gould collection included paintings, tapestries, prints, engravings, sculpture, decorative arts and miniature portraits on ivory. Among other works of art, Gould owned the "Duchess of Marlborough," by Sir Joshua Reynolds, "Professor Abel", by Gainsborough, "Duchess of Beaufort by Hopper, and a "Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan" by Romney.

Lent work to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909, Aeybert Cuyp, Milking Time, now in an unknown collection, Meindert Hobemma's Road in the Woods, and Rembrandt's Study of an Old Man and The Standard-Bearer.

Gould was married twice; his first wife was actress Edith Kingdon, d 1921 (married 1886), and his second marriage, in 1922, was actress Guinevere Sinclair Jay Gould. Guinevere married again in 1925, to the Earl of Midleton heir, Viscount George St. John Brodrick Dunsford.
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1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Please see individual record for location
Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964 see details...
Syracuse University Libraries
Special Collections Research Center
W J Arkell Collection, 1881-1894. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (bulk 1904-1914). see details...
Colorado Historical Society
Library
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: [collection] : 1870-1974. see details...
Syracuse University Libraries
Special Collections Research Center
W. J. Arkell Collection, 1881-1894. see details...
Lyndhurst
Archives Department
Lyndhurst Archives see details...
Museum of the City of New York
Photograph Collections
Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, 1908: Byron Company Collection see details...
The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
10 East 71st Street
Catalog of the George Jay Gould Collection, 1945. see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details...

see also:
Miller, Daniel S.
Gould, Florence, 1895-1983
Gould, Jay, 1836-1892
Gould, Frank Jay