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updated February 12, 2005

Clarence Mackay's Art, Armor & Tapestry

Images displayed below are courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Attribution: Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Date purchased: June 1921 Dealer: Joseph Duveen. Cost: $95,000

Attribution at sale: Anne de Montmorency, now Henry VIII Date purchased: Dec. 1929 Dealer: Joseph Duveen. Cost: $75,000.

Armor of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ca. 1575 English (Greenwich) Rogers Fund, 1932 (32.130.5)

Traditionally, of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France. Now accepted as having been made for Henry VIII, probably for siege of Boulogne in 1544 Italian Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932 (32.130.7)

Source of purchase information here is Stuart W. Pyhrr's article, "Clarence H. Mackay as an Armour Collector" and the files of Seligman & Company in the Smithsonian.

Attribution: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland Date purchased: August 1922 Dealer: Joseph Duveen. Cost: $122,825

Armor of George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland, ca. 1580-85 Made in the Royal Workshops English (Greenwich) Munsey Fund, 1932 (32.130.6)

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