Esther Singleton gathers a hundred and ten great European paintings then held in private American collections, arranged by school: Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French and English painting of the eighteenth century. For each she gives the artist’s story, the history of the picture and where it went, including a Rembrandt rediscovered in 1916.
A fascinating record of the Gilded Age buying of Old Masters, for art lovers and collectors’ historians. Download the free EPUB.