Isabella Stewart Gardner (1888), by John Singer Sargent.

Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 14, 1924) was an influential American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts whose collection is now housed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, Massachusetts. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (300x754, 27 KB)Isabella Stewart Gardner (1888), oil painting by John Singer Sargent, American (1856 – 1925). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (300x754, 27 KB)Isabella Stewart Gardner (1888), oil painting by John Singer Sargent, American (1856 – 1925). ... Self Portrait, oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105 in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 261 days remaining. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Someone who practices Philanthropy. ... The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ...

Isabella Stewart, daughter of David and Adelia (Smith) Stewart, was born in New York City, New York. She married John Lowell "Jack" Gardner, son of John L. and Catharine E. (Peabody) Gardner of Boston, Massachusetts on April 10, 1860 in New York City and thereafter moved to Boston.^[1] Jack Gardner's grandfather was the distinguished Salem shipowner, Joseph Peabody, who made a fortune importing pepper from Sumatra and was one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... NY redirects here. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). ...

During her lifetime, the Boston society pages called her many names, including "Belle," "Donna Isabella," "Isabella of Boston," "Izzy G," and "Mrs. Jack." Isabella created much fodder for the gossip tabloids of the day with her reputation for stylish tastes and unconventional eccentricities. Once, for example, she persuaded the Boston Zoo to allow her to borrow two lion cubs for a few days, which she enjoyed parading down Commonwealth Avenue. On another occasion, after she and her husband missed the train to a social engagement, she persuaded the railroad to lend them another for their own personal use. Her surprising appearance at a 1912 concert (at what was then a very formal Boston Symphony) wearing a white headband emblazoned with "Oh, you Red Sox" was reported at the time to have "almost caused a panic", and remains still in Boston one of the most talked about of her eccentricities. A tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. ...

After her husband's death in 1898, Mrs. Gardner began work on her museum. Completed in 1903, the museum was named "Fenway Court" and constructed in the reclaimed swamplands of Boston's Fenway area. Modeled on the Renaissance palaces of Venice, Italy, it was designed by Willard T. Sears, with much direct involvement from Mrs. Gardner, to accommodate the art and architectural artifacts Mrs. Gardner had collected with her husband over many years. The building completely surrounds a glass-covered garden courtyard. The first through third floors were designed to be galleries. The fourth floor of the building was used as living quarters by Isabella Gardner until her death in 1924, and is now used for offices. Mrs. Gardner insisted that the galleries be designed as a palatial home, not a museum, and in the early years after the building was completed she used those floors as such, opening them to the public just 20 days a year. 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ...

She died at Fenway Court at age 84, and was buried in the Gardner family tomb at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a friend of noted artists and writers of the day, including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Anders Zorn, Henry James, and Frank Marion Crawford. Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery Hunnewell family obelisk Civil War memorial Founded in 1831 as Americas first garden cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. ...   Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02138, 02139, 02140, 02141, 02142 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... Self Portrait, oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. ... Self portrait James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 14, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. ... Anders Zorn: Self-portrait in red 1915 Anders Zorn (February 18, 1860 – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter who painted a portrait of, among others, the former American President Grover Cleveland in 1899. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ...

The Gardners' art collection

The Gardners were avid travelers and the earliest works in the collection were accumulated from their trips to Europe especially, but also from such places Egypt, Turkey, and the Far East. But the Gardners began to collect in earnest in the 1880s, rapidly building a world class collection of paintings and statues primarily, but also including tapestries, photographs, silver, ceramics and manuscripts, and architectural elements such as doors, stained glass, and mantlepieces. Nearly 70 works of art in her collection were acquired with the help of dealer Bernard Berenson. Among the collectors with whom she competed was Edward Perry Warren, who supplied a number of works to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The far east as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and South Asia. ... Bernard Berenson in the garden of his estate Villa I Tatti in 1911 Bernard Berenson (born Bernhard Valvrojenski, June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959), was an American art historian. ... Edward Perry Warren (8 June 1860 – 28 December 1928), known as Ned Warren, was an American art collector, and a writer of works proposing an idealised view of homosexual relationships. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ...

The collection includes work by some of Europe's most important artists, such as Botticelli's Madonna and Child with an Angel, Titian's Europa, and Raphael's The Colonna Altarpiece. Mrs. Gardner stipulated that after her death, the museum must be left exactly as she designed it, with each painting and each object in the collection to remain forever in the same place she had put it. Apart from exhibiting the valuable works of art themselves to the public, the museum continues to showcase the strong stamp of its original collectors, Jack and Isabella Gardner. Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Florence March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). ... Titians self-portrait, 1566. ... Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. ...

In 1990 the Museum had a major theft. Art thieves dressed up as Boston policemen tied up the security guards at night, and proceeded to walk off with 13 works of art, including The Concert by Vermeer, five sketches by Degas, and three works by Rembrandt, including his seascape Storm on the Sea of Galilee which is his only known seascape. The works have not been recovered, and the FBI is still investigating the matter. The Museum has made many private attempts to reclaim the stolen art through negotiations with black market art thieves, so far to no avail. View of Delft, 1660-1661 Johannes Vermeer (1632 - December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter. ... Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (IPA ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606– October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. ...

References

1. ^ Louise Hall Tharp, "Mrs. Jack", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 1965

External links

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Isabella Gardner's Gravesite