Charismatic Crook Or The World's Greatest Art Dealer?

CHARISMATIC CROOK OR THE WORLD'S GREATEST ART DEALER

‘Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money’ remarked Joseph Duveen the British art dealer whose wit & charm convinced the hard-nosed, tight-fisted titans of Wall Street - Frick, Mellon, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Vanderbilt that ‘when you pay high for the priceless, you’re getting it cheap’. Without Duveen, there is no Frick; and, without Duveen both the Metropolitan Museum in New York and The National Gallery of Art in DC would struggle, or even fail, to be considered world-class today. But was he just a charismatic crook milking millionaires, or was he indeed truly deserving of the title, ‘world’s greatest art dealer’?

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Mark Meredith

Mark is a writer, the founder of HouseHistree.com, and lectures regularly at societies, festivals and clubs in both Europe and the United States. After leaving Stowe School, Mark worked for twenty years as a plumber in London. However, his real passion has always been for history, particularly the history behind houses through the characters that conjoin to create them. His special interest lies with the great American houses and their relationships with those in Europe, both socially and architecturally.