Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, known as Sir Joseph Duveen, Baronet, between 1927 and 1933, was a British art dealer who was considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time.
Duveen in the 1920s
The Elgin Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum
La belle ferronnière, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre, Paris; the authenticity of another version of this painting was questioned by Duveen.
The oldest Western panel portrait of a woman, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photographs prove Duveen significantly altered the hair and headdress to make it look like a Pisanello of the 1440s.[citation needed] It is now catalogued as by an unknown "Franco-Flemish Master" of about 1410.
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.
Berenson in 1905
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
