(Q43301751)
Statements
1 reference
16 May 1910Gregorian
1 reference
29 August 1994
2 references
1935
1973
1 reference
1973
1994
1 reference
1 reference
By 1918 until about 1931, Frigyes Glück (b. 1858 - d. 1931), Budapest [see note 1]. Probably about 1931, acquired by Ferenc Chorin (b. 1879 – d. 1964), Budapest; 1943, deposited by Chorin at the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, Co., Budapest; January 1945, taken from Chorin’s bank vault, probably by Soviet troops, and dispersed [see note 2]. Private collection, Switzerland [see note 3]. 1982, Edward Speelman, Ltd., London; 1982, sold by Speelman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 15, 1982); October 7, 2021, deaccessioned by the MFA for restitution to the heirs of Ferenc Chorin [see note 4]. (English)
16 November 1936
3 references
The Oyster Meal had come to Mansion House as part of the collection of the property developer and entrepreneur Harold Samuel. Lord Samuel of Wych Cross was the owner of probably the finest collection of Dutch art in Britain, which he bequeathed to the City of London on his death in 1987. Samuel had bought the painting in 1971 from a London dealer, Edward Speelman, who had acquired it four years earlier from an American investment banker and diplomat, J William Middendorf, who at one time served as the US ambassador to the Netherlands. Middendorf, in turn, had bought the painting in 1965 from a Swiss gallery, Galerie Kurt Meissner in Zurich. But there the trail went cold. (English)
1 reference
The Nazis expelled all residents from the city before systematically looting it. Dr Smidt van Gelder, director of the children’s hospital in Arnhem, had sent 14 of his paintings for safekeeping in a bank, and his family hid another three underneath paving slabs.The pavement hiding place proved more successful than the bank, which was ransacked on the orders of Helmut Temmler, a former Hitler Youth leader and head of District Commando Düsseldorf. Temmler, who was given command of a quarter of Arnhem, was so brazen that Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust, described the bank raid as “shameless”.The fate of the painting after the bank robbery has emerged after years of detective work by Ms Webber, who had to work backwards from the painting’s arrival at Mansion House as part of the Harold Samuel Collection.Samuel bought the painting from the reputable London art dealer Edward Speelman who in turn received it from J William Middendorf, an American diplomat whose career included being secretary of the navy, US ambassador to the Netherlands and US ambassador to the European Union.Mr Middendorf, who is still alive, told Ms Webber that he bought it in about 1967 from Gallery Meissner in Zurich, but there the trail appeared to go cold. (English)
1 reference
Identifiers
Sitelinks
Wikipedia(1 entry)
- enwiki Edward Speelman