Isabella Stewart Gardner

Isabella Stewart Gardner

female, deceased (1924)
sumatra, tabloids, Art collector, from New York City, American, MuseumofFineArts, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an influential American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts whose collection is now housed in the...

Malcolm Rogers

male, 60 years old
Old Oakhamian, D.Phil., MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford…University of Oxford
Malcolm Rogers (b. 1949) is a British-born art curator who has served as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 1994. In this role...
William Sturgis Bigelow

William Sturgis Bigelow

male, deceased (1926)
Okakura Kakuzo, Nihon Bijutsu-in, Emperor Shomu, Shōsō-in, American, Harvard University…MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, secretary of the Harvard
William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926) was a doctor and great American collector of Japanese art. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan,...
Marion True

Marion True

female
illicit antiquities, Art and cultural repatriation, antiquities, Getty Center, Giacomo Medici, MuseumofFineArts, Boston…j. paul getty museum
Marion True (b. 1948) is the former curator of antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she...
Laura McPhee

Laura McPhee

female
fine arts, New England Foundation of the Arts, documentary photography, MuseumofFineArts, Boston, portraiture, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College Of Art, river of no return, rhode island school of design
Laura McPhee (Born New York City, NY, 1958) is a Boston-based, portraiture and documentary photographer. She is the daughter of award winning...
Dirck van Baburen

Dirck van Baburen

male, deceased (1624)
Utrecht caravaggisti, Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen, From Utrecht, Rijksmuseum, deposition, utrecht…MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen was a Dutch painter associated with the Utrecht caravaggisti.
Guy Lowell

Guy Lowell

male, deceased (1927)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, architect, Harvard University alumni, Lowell family, landscape architect, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni…From Greater Boston, MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
American architect Guy Lowell (August 6 1870 - February 4 1927) was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, and a member of...
Ernest Fenollosa

Ernest Fenollosa

male, deceased (1908)
convert to Buddhism, Harvard College, philosopher, Buddhism, O-yatoi gaikokujin, philosophy…University of Cambridge, Museum of Fine Arts, MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Tokyo Fine Arts Academy, Imperial Museum
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 - September 21, 1908) was an American professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial...
Charles Goddard Weld

Charles Goddard Weld

male, deceased (1911)
Harvard University alumni, American, Art collector, Greater Boston, MuseumofFineArts, Boston, Weld Family
Charles Goddard Weld (1857-1911), was a Boston-area physician, sailor, philanthropist, and art lover. Weld, a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts...
William Trost Richards

William Trost Richards

male, deceased (1905)
painter, Landscape artist, metropolitan museum of art, landscape, philadelphia museum of art, artist…fogg art museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, High Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art
William Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an important American landscape artist associated with both the Hudson River School and...