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Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (September 21, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10:
0375410422 ISBN-13: 978-0375410420 Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.6 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 2
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Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark (“Riveting . . . enthralling” –Wall Street Journal)
and Bernard Berenson (“A remarkable tour de force”–Sir Harold Acton), brings all her
exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank. Her book is the first major biography
in more than fifty years of the supreme international art dealer of the twentieth century and the
first to make use of the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently,
been kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story begins with Duveen
père, a Dutch Jew immigrating to Britain in 1866, establishing a business in London, going from
humble beginnings in an antiques shop to a knighthood celebrating him as one of the country’s
leading art dealers. Duveen père could discern an Old Master beneath layers of discolored
varnish. He perfected the chase, the subterfuges, the strategies, the double dealings. He had an
uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure. It was called “the Duveen eye.” His son, Joseph, grew
up with it and learned it all–and more . . . Secrest tells us how the young Duveen was motivated
from the beginning by the thrill of discovery; how he ascended, at twenty-nine, to (de facto) head
of the business; how he moved away from the firm’s emphasis on tapestries and Chinese
porcelains toward the more speculative, more lucrative, more exciting business of dealing in Old
Masters. We see a demand for these paintings growing in America, fueled by the new
“squillionaires” just at the moment when British aristocrats with great art collections were losing
their fortunes . . . how Duveen’s whole career was based on the simple observation: Europe has
the art; America, the money. Secrest shows how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini,
Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Titian,
among others, by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener,
Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and while waving such
huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art changed hands and all were happy. We
discover Duveen’s connection to Buckingham Palace: how when the Prince of Wales became
Edward VII his first act was to call in Duveen Brothers as decorators (something had to be done
with the lugubrious Victorian décor and ghastly tartan hangings); how Duveen supplied the
tapestries and rugs for the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey; and how, in 1933, he
became Lord Duveen of Millbank. We learn about the controversies in which he became
embroiled and about his legendary art espionage (a network of hotel employees spied on his
clients to discover their tastes). Duveen was as generous as he was acquisitive, giving away
hundreds of thousands of pounds to British institutions (the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait
Gallery, the British Museum–including rooms to house the Elgin Marbles), organizing exhibitions
for young artists, writing books about British art, and playing a major role in the design of the
National Gallery in Washington. Meryle Secrest’s Duveen fascinates as it contributes to our
understanding of art as commerce and our grasp of American and English taste in the grand
manner. As Andrew Mellon once said, paintings never looked as good as they did when Duveen
was standing in front of them.

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