Dealers and collectors - National Museums Liverpool

Literature· B. Webber, James Orrock, R.I.: painter, connoisseur, collector, 2 vols. (1903)· Edward Morris, ‘James Orrock, dentist, artist, patron, collector, dealer, curator,connoisseur, forger, propagandist'. Visual Culture in Britain, 6:2 (2005), pp.84­98.Duveen BrothersArt dealers. Founded by Henry Duveen (1854­1919) and his brother, Joseph Joel (1843­1908), in 1871, in Oxford Street London, they were initially dealers in furniture and objects ofvirtu. The family were originally from Meppel in Holland and were sent to England by theirmother to sell Delftware. The two brothers were so successful that they opened a new shop at21 Old Bond Street and Henry established premises in New York, winning clients such asJohn Pierpont Morgan, Benjamin Altman and Henry Clay Frick. Both Henry and Joseph Joelwere dealers in Chinese porcelains. Joseph Joel’s son Joseph (1869­1939) joined the firm in1887, becoming President of the firm (1909­39), and being raised to the Peerage as LordDuveen of Millbank. He was the most flamboyant and successful member of the family anddealt mostly in Old Master paintings.Literature· Meryle Secrest, Duveen: a life in art, New York 2004.· S N Behrman, Duveen, London 1952;· James Henry Duveen, Collections and Recollections. A century and a half of artdeals, London 1935.James Henry DuveenArt dealer and author. James Henry Duveen (b.1873), known as Jack, or Jacques, was thecousin of Joseph Duveen (Lord Duveen of Millbank). He ran the family’s Liverpool gallerybefore moving to 38 Dover Street in London in 1906 and then to 9 Old Bond Street in 1908.He initiated a lawsuit for slander against his cousin Joseph in 1910, when the latter tried to