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Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888 print view role Collector dates 1818-1888 city Florence other cities Boston, MA; Rome, Italy; Honolulu, HI; country Italy sex M historical notes James Jackson Jarves was an art collector, scholar, critic, newspaper editor (est. The Polynesian in 1940) and the son/heir of Deming Jarves (1790-1869, founder of the Sandwich Glass Co). The Jarves' Art collection was disbursed and can be found at the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale purchased its portion in, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1879, Jarves acquired a collection of approximately 650 plus drawings, formed by Count Alessandro Maggiori (Fermo, 1764-1834), from a member of the Leopardi Family of Fermo. In 1880, after cataloging the collection, Jarves sold it to Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), in turn Vanderbilt gifted the collection in its entirety to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1880. Jarves married Elizabeth Russell Swain in 1838, she died in 1861, and in 1862, he married Isabella Kast Heyden. Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, History of a Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 8 (Apr., 1947), pp. 215-220. http://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3257298.pdf.bannered.pdf decades of activity 1850-1860 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 website http://www.archive.org/details/manualjarvescol00artsgoog updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives James Jackson Jarves collection, 1838-1954 see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Two Florentine cassoni in the Jarves Collection see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives William Michael Rossetti collection, 1857-1910. see details... Boston Athenaeum Library of the Boston Athenæum Letters concerning a collection of Italian paintings owned by James Jackson Jarves of Florence, 1859-1860. see details... Boston Athenaeum Library of the Boston Athenæum Nathan Appleton Letters received ca. 1870-1883. see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Thomas Bailey Aldrich Papers, 1837-1926 (bMS Am 1429). see details... The Winterthur Library Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum James Jackson Jarves Papers 1859-1881. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Evert Augustus Duyckinck papers, 1809-1878. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 William Conant Church letters, 1866-1878. see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Theodore Sizer papers, 1679-1992 (inclusive), 1916-1966 (bulk). see details... The Metropolitan Museum of Art Please see individual record for location Office of the Secretary records, 1870-[ongoing]. see details... «  back