Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Isabella Stewart Gardner was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888 painting by John Singer Sargent
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894), by Anders Zorn (Gardner Museum)
Mrs. Gardner in White (1922), by Sargent
Bernard Berenson
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Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings.
Bernard Berenson in the garden of his estate Villa I Tatti in 1911
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1917
Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson, and Howard Sturges in a gondola, 1923