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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Joseph Duveen
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(1869–1939, kt 1919, baron 1933) Art dealer and patron, the first to demonstrate quite how much money great art could fetch in the hands of a great dealer. Several of the leading American collections were formed around European and British masterpieces shipped west by Duveen (*Gainsborough's Blue Boy is perhaps the best-known example). But if he reduced the country's store of art, he greatly improved its art institutions – with major benefactions to the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the British Museum, where the Duveen Gallery houses the Elgin marbles.
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