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Grady & McKeever
| Name | Grady & McKeever |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Sixth Avenue 719 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kunsthändler |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Dealers in Fine Arts". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 273] |
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Ereignis |
| 1882 |
Umwandlung aus "Renner & Co." in "Grady & McKeever" |
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Kommentar |
| Kunsthandel |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Nothing so much points to the advances in the aesthetic tastes and refinement of a community as the establishment within it of houses devoted to the sale of articles comprised under the title of the fine arts, and in the possession of the house of Messrs. Grady & McKeever New York is to be congratulated as having domiciled in her boundaries one of the most notable kind in America. This establishment was founded many years aen by Messrs. Renner & Co., who continued the business till 1882. when the present firm of Grady & McKeever assumed the management. The premises occupied consist of a handsome store and picture gallery, and also a separate department for manufacturing picture frames. The stock carried is of the most recherche character, comprising splendid oil paintings, the production of some of the most eminent painters of the American schools, and which arc unsurpassed by those of any other fine-art concern in the United States. The firm likewise deals in engravings, photographs, objets d'art, and makes a specialty of photoengraving or photogravures of the most celebrated productions of eminent painters of the old and modern schools. A fine collection of fac similes of the paintings of Michaelangelo, Titian, Rubens, Correggio, Van Dyke, Murillo and other famous masters, is constantly on hand, reminding visitors of the glorious originals in the picture galleries of Paris, London. Rome, Berlin and Munich. In the department for the sale of picture frames a vast variety of the most elegant and artistic designs are at the disposal of patrons. The individual members of this firm are Messrs. J. Grady and John McKeever, gentlemen of the greatest ability and integrity, who are held in the highest estimation in art and social circles for their talents and skill in deciding on the merits and value of any pictures that may ba submitted to their judgment. The basis on which the business is carried on is characterized by liberality and the careful fostering of the interests of all patrons, so that transactions once begun with this house may be made not only pleasant for the time being, but of such a nature that they shall become permanent. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 273] |
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