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Article: A Harvard collection at the National Gallery.(A Private Passion: Harvard's Winthrop Collection)
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 1, 2003
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THE latest exhibition at the National Gallery is called A Private Passion: Harvard's Winthrop Collection, although one would not readily call the collector, Grenville Winthrop (1864-1943) passionate. A rich Manhattan lawyer, introverted and austere, he retired early to live on wealth inherited from his ancestors, who stemmed from the first Governor of Massachusetts. Like many of his eminent forefathers, as a young man he attended Harvard University, a venerable but innovatory institution, which offered one of the earliest courses in the History of Art. Captivated by that course, he formed an interest in nineteenth-century pictures which would sweeten his future years of ...