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- catalog abstract ""In the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize the artists of Maryland. Today, the museum that bears his name - Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery - excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance paintings, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--Jacket. "With this new book, William Johnston, the Walters's curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, restores William and Henry Walters to their rightful place among America's great art collectors. Drawing upon the knowledge of the early museum staff and gathering valuable information from the few other available sources, Johnston has painstakingly recreated the life and world of the Walterses."--Jacket. "Their personal collection differs from those of other, more familiar collectors, such as J.P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, in that Henry Walters intended from the very first that the collection form a museum to serve the public. When the museum first opened its doors in 1934, Johnston relates, many visitors were surprised by the collection's size and by its comprehensive representation of the history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11491950.
- catalog contributor b11491951.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""In the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize the artists of Maryland. Today, the museum that bears his name - Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery - excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance paintings, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Their personal collection differs from those of other, more familiar collectors, such as J.P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, in that Henry Walters intended from the very first that the collection form a museum to serve the public. When the museum first opened its doors in 1934, Johnston relates, many visitors were surprised by the collection's size and by its comprehensive representation of the history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""With this new book, William Johnston, the Walters's curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, restores William and Henry Walters to their rightful place among America's great art collectors. Drawing upon the knowledge of the early museum staff and gathering valuable information from the few other available sources, Johnston has painstakingly recreated the life and world of the Walterses."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Early Years, 1819-1861 -- The Years Abroad, 1861-1865 -- The Postwar Recovery, 1866-1884 -- The Years of Fruition, 1884-1894 -- The Son Succeeds His Father, 1894-1909 -- The Walters Gallery, 1909-1919 -- The Final Years, 1919-1931.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 309 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0801860407 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "709/.2/273 B 21".
- catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "N5220.W43 J65 1999".
- catalog subject "Walters, Henry, 1848-1931.".
- catalog subject "Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1820-1894.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Early Years, 1819-1861 -- The Years Abroad, 1861-1865 -- The Postwar Recovery, 1866-1884 -- The Years of Fruition, 1884-1894 -- The Son Succeeds His Father, 1894-1909 -- The Walters Gallery, 1909-1919 -- The Final Years, 1919-1931.".
- catalog title "William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors / William R. Johnston.".
- catalog type "text".