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R. P. Field & Co.
| Name | R. P. Field & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 841 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kunsthändler |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Artists and Dealers in Art". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 321] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1850 |
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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 | One of the most gratifying evidences of the advancement of correct artistic tastes among all classes of society, is the great attention that Li now paid to the production of pictures and paintings of every description. A prominent house in the metropolis engaged in this artistic branch of industry ia that of Messrs. R. F. Field & Co., No. 841 Broadway, which was originally founded in Maiden Lane in 1850. and in consequence of a rapidly increasing business was removed to its present eligible location. The premises occupied are very spacious, commodious and handsome, and comprise an elegantly equipped gallery and store, where some of the finest paintings of the American and European schools are on exhibition, which by their beauty and exquisite coloring attract the attention and approbation of numerous visitors. The stock carried is of the most recherche character, and consists of splendid oil-paintings, etc., originals, reproductions and fac-similes of the famous originals of Raphael, Titian. Rubens, Michael Angelo, Murillo, Correggio, and the more modern productions of Lawrence, Eastlake, West and Reynolds. Messrs. Field & Co. clean, line and restore to their original beauty, by the best known European methods, old pictures, and give their special attention to the valuation of paintings, and in this department of its business the firm has no superior in the United States. The individual members of this popular house are thoroughly practical men, connoisseurs in this department of art, and in social and commercial life are esteemed and respected both as artists of great ability and upright private citizens. The manner in which they have been enabled to take an undisputed front stand .in this branch of business, as artists and dealers in art, is solely owing to the acumen state of the senior partner, Mr. R. F. Field, who is well known both in America and Europe as one of the best judges of paintings in the world. Works of art are bought on commission, and those desirous of investing in pictures giving their orders to this trustworthy house can implicitly depend that their interests and wishes will be faithfully attended to and guarded in every particular. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 321] |
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