(Q109871466)
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with R K Blair, Scotland, date unknown; with Galerie Étienne Bignou, date unknown; with Knoedler & Co, New York, 6/1928 (part share); purchased from Knoedler & Co by Alexander Reid & Lefevre Ltd, London, 16/3/1929; - ? -; Scott, London, 1938, cat. no. 30; - ? -; Delacroix to Dufy: French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Lefevre Gallery, London, 6-7/1946, cat. no. 50; purchased from Lefevre Gallery, 1946, by Mrs A. Chester Beatty; by inheritance to Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, Dublin, 1952; (English)
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Edith Dunn Stone was the second wife of mining millionaire Sir Chester Beatty [1875- 1968]. Chester Beatty was born in New York of Scotch, Irish and English ancestry. In 1898 he achieved a degree in engineering at Columbia and moved west to find his fortune. By the time he returned to New York in 1905, he was a millionaire; it was there he began his collecting. He also had a family by this time: his wife Grace and two children, Ninette and Chester, Jr. His first collecting loves were books, manuscripts and incunabula. In 1911, his wife died of typhoid and this event, coupled with his desire to move into financing, led him to move to London. In 1913 he remarried, to a fellow American, the former Edith Dunn [d. 1952]. In their home on Kensington Square Gardens in London he displayed their collections, which had expanded to include papyri and eastern manuscripts. Edith concentrated on her collection of Impressionist paintings. (English)