High Museums In Vienna Vienna Information

Then in 1941 the museum purchased a Diego Velázquez portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Spain, which was probably a study for a bigger portrait of her in Vienna. Other major benefactors in the course of the museum’s first quarter century have been Archer M. Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Timken, whose small art collection is housed in the nearby Timken Museum of Art, established in 1965. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second president, Henry Gurdon Marquand. In 1896, the Museum trustees acknowledged Marquand’s huge contributions to the institution by commissioning this portrait by John Singer Sargent. The museum …
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