Milwaukee Art Museum presents Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, an exhibition on view October 12, 2012–January 13, 2013.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, A Coast Scene with Fisherman Hauling a Boat Ashore (“The Iveagh Sea-Piece”), c. 1803–04, oil on canvas, Kenwood House, English Heritage, Iveagh Bequest.
Portraiture, landscape, and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish works dominated English aristocratic collections in the late nineteenth century, when Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) and heir to the world’s most successful brewery, shared the cultural stage and art market with other industry titans such as the Rothschilds, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick. The forty-eight masterpieces in this exhibition are mostly drawn from Lord Iveagh’s collection and represent the greatest artists of their periods, including Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641), Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788), Sir Joshua Reynolds (British,1723–1792), Frans Hals (Dutch, ca. 1581–1666), and J. M. W. Turner (English, 1775–1851). – www.mam.org