Word: connoisseur
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the last thirty years of his life his best efforts were devoted to the promotion of art and of higher education. He was a distinguished patron of art and as a connoisseur was widely known in this country and in Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works...
Anyone who has visited the Boylston Chemical Labratory and seen the mineralogical collection upstairs, has doubtless been surprised at the size of the collection, and at the rare beauty of some of the specimens. But unless he were a connoisseur he would hardly realize that this was one of the two finest collections of the kind in America, the other being at Yale. The European collections which surpass the Harvard one are those at the British Museum, at Vienna, and at Paris. All of these collections, however, have been aided by subsidies from the government. The Harvard collection...