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This painting depicts Duveen and his family in the new drawing room added by John Russell Pope on a vacant space beside Duveen's East 91st Street mansion. The windows on the right overlooked Madison Avenue. The mansion was demolished after Duveen's death in 1939, including the new drawing room. Lavery had written to Duveen's secretary, surnamed Morgan, from Palm Springs, CA, on March 30th 1936 (Getty Research Center, Duveen Papers) saying that not only was he concerned for Duveen's health after the recent operation but that he had written 'proposing to paint a "Conversation Piece of 15 East 91st' as a gift ...'. He was pleased to be returning to London on 3rd May '... when I am looking forward to a pleasant return voyage home with Lord and Lady Duveen.
The Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Muller-Ury (1862–1947) who painted Duveen in 1923, 1929, and 1938, as well as two portraits of his daughter Dorothy, and was perhaps Duveen's best friend in the USA, often travelling with him, recorded in his diary (Muller Family Papers, Hospental, Switzerland), on April 25th 1936: 'At Duveen's where Sir John Lavery the great English painter is going to paint the interior of the Salon ...' ('Da Duveen ove Sir John Lavery il grande pittore inglese sta onde dipingere il interiore del Salone.').
Ferens Art Gallery
Kingston upon Hull
Title
The Family of Lord Duveen
Date
c.1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 77.4 x W 102.8 cm
Accession number
KINCM:2005.5125
Acquisition method
gift, 1939
Work type
Painting
Ferens Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Square, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire HU1 3RA England
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