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Identifier: catalogueofgalle00newy (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: New-York Historical Society. Museum and Gallery of Art
Subjects: New-York Historical Society. Museum and Gallery of Art Art
Publisher: New York, Printed for the Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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n assayer and refiner for manyyears with his brother. He accumulated a fortune and spent all his spare timestudying and collecting works of art. He lived at No. 30East 4th Street, where he kept his paintings. He was a member of the Liederkranz Club, then near hishome, and became a member of this Society in 1873. By will Mr. Durr dhected that the most meritorious worksof art were to be selected from his gallery of paintings andplaced by his executors in some public art gallery, to beknown as the ^Durr Gallery of Paintings, the residue ofhis paintings to be sold and the proceeds invested for thepurchase of suitable additions for the ^Durr Gallery ofPaintings. In 1880 the executors of his estate under the terms of hiswill offered the collection of paintings to The New York His-torical Society, and in 1882 they were transferred to theSociety, together with the proceeds of the above-mentionedsale, which the Society designated the Durr Gallery Fundand from which the Gallery is added to. 102
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17. BUST OF LOUIS DURR. IN BRONZE. HENRY BAERER. FOUNDER OF THE DURR COLLECTION. PRESENTED BY THE EXECUTORS OF HIS ESTATE. THE DURR COLLECTION NO. SUBJECTS OF PAINTINGS. ARTISTS. D-1. St. Ferdinand I., King of Castile, receivingthe Code de las Partidas from the Madonna.(65x41 J.) Murillo. (Durr Collection.) D-2. The Immaculate Conception. (24x32.) Murillo. From the Emmet Collection. (Durr Collection.) D-3. Jesus Suffering. (19x24.) J. A. Escalante. Signed. From the Emmet .Collection.(Durr Collection.) D-4. Jesus Victorious. (19x24.) J. A. Escalante. Signed. From the Emmet Collection.(Durr Collection.) D-5. St. John the Baptist. (41x65^.) Velasquez. From a collection brought from Seville, and purchasedby Mr. Francis Tomes. (Durr Collection.) D-6. Ecce Homo. (50x80.) Luis AI or ales. From a Catholic church in Mexico, brought to NewYork about 1855. (Durr Collection.) D-7. Portrait of a Philosopher. (29x39.) Spagnoletto. Purchased in Philadelphia.(Durr Collection.) D-8. Adoration of the S

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