Henry J. Duveen

Henry J. Duveen

Henry Joseph Duveen (born October 26, 1854 in Meppel , Netherlands , † January 15, 1919 in New York ) was a British - American antique and art dealer and philatelist .

Henry J. Duveen was the son of the Jewish trader Joseph Duveen (1820–1877) and his wife Eva van Minden (1812–1864). Since 1876 he and his older brother Joseph Joel Duveen (1843-1908) ran an antique and art shop in London ("Duveen Brothers"). The brothers built one of the largest antiques and art stores at the time, which had branches in New York and Paris . Henry J. Duveen ran the New York branch, founded in 1886, supported by his nephew Joseph Duveen (1869–1939). Henry Duveen was a collector of art and stamps . With his stamp collection he was a general collector with a special focus on British Guiana and the British colonies. He owned a total of four Red and Blue Mauritius .

literature

• Charles J. Phillips: The Duveen Collection of Rare Old Postage Stamps. A Brief Description of Some of the Rarities of this Famous Collection . New York 1922.
• James Henry Duveen: The rise of the House of Duveen . Longmans Green, London 1957.
• Stanley M. Bierman: The World's Greatest Stamp Collectors. Fell Publishers, Inc., Hollywood, Florida 1990, ISBN 0-8119-0668-X , pp. 81-89.
• Meryle Secrest : Duveen. A Life in Art . Knopf, New York 2004, ISBN 0-375-41042-2 .
• Lieselotte Kugler, Andreas Hahn (Ed.): The Blue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication by the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , p. 176.
• Wolfgang Maassen : Who is who in philately . 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-932198-92-2 , Volume 1: A – D, pp. 306–308.

Web links

Commons : Henry J. Duveen  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Henry Duveen in the Blue Mauritius Research Companion