Joseph Duveen, the British Art Dealer behind America’s Great Collections

Dominic Taglialatella's 17th lecture at Mar-a-Lago titled, Joseph Duveen, the British Art Dealer behind America’s Great Collections was Wednesday March, 21, 2018. Starting out, Mr. Taglialatella took the audience back in time to the late 1800’s and told the story of the famous Art Dealer Joseph Duveen, who was responsible for bringing art and culture to America. Mr. Taglialatella enthrilled the crowd when he explained how Duveen was directly responsible for helping to create many of the major museums around the United States. Duveen’s famous quote was; “Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money", and in the course of his dynamic career, he was the art dealer to Henry Clay Frick, William Randolph Hearst, Samuel H. Kress, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller.