Bryan Lathrop
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Bryan Lathrop was an American businessman and art collector from Alexandria, Virginia, United States. He is known for his works in Chicago, Illinois, where his insurance and real estate dealings made
Billingsgate, one of the James Abbott McNeill Whistler drawings collected by Lathrop and bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago
Bellevue Place, Lathrop's house designed by Charles Follen McKim
Thomas Barbour Bryan
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Thomas Barbour Bryan was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician.
Bryan Lathrop
…of Virginia. However, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, Lathrop moved with his pro-Union family to Chicago, Illinois, home of his uncle, Thomas Barbour Bryan. Lathrop's parents sent him to study in Europe under private tutelage during the war. Here, Lathrop gained an appreciation of art and culture. Lathrop…
Bryan in the 1860s
Mrs. Thomas B. Bryan, an 1856 George Peter Alexander Healy painting of Bryan's wife Jennie, which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bryan with son Charles and daughter Jennie, circa 1865
Postcard of Bryan's residence at the Byrd's Nest estate in Elmhurst, Illinois