Joseph Joel Duveen, Baron Duveen
(1869-1939), Art dealer and benefactorSitter in 8 portraits
Art dealer and benefactor. Lord Duveen of Millbank began his career in his father's antiques business, Duveen Brothers, in Hull. He transformed the business, specialising in the acquisition and sale of Old Master pictures, with galleries in London, Paris and New York. A great benefactor to museums in Britain, Duveen donated pictures to the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery among others, and financed building schemes including an extension for the National Portrait Gallery and a gallery for the Parthenon Sculptures at the British Museum.
Explore the portrait of Joseph Duveen, Baron Duveen by Sir William Reid Dick (NPG 3062) from all angles
by Walter Tittle
pencil, 1920s?
NPG 2484
by Dorothy Elaine Vicaji
watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, 1920s?
NPG 6499
by Isaac Israels
oil on canvas, 1930s?
NPG 5840
by Sir William Reid Dick
stone bust, 1933
NPG 3062
Joseph Joel Duveen, Baron Duveen; Elsie (née Salomon), Lady Duveen
by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
bromide print, 21 September 1932
NPG x194080
Joseph Joel Duveen, Baron Duveen
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x28133
Joseph Joel Duveen, Baron Duveen
by George Charles Beresford
bromide print
NPG x28132
Joseph Joel Duveen, Baron Duveen
by George Charles Beresford
dry-plate glass negative, 1930
NPG x6492
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