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Title: Duits, Ltd. (Gallery: London, England) records
Date (inclusive): 1920-1979
Number: 860290
Creator/Collector:
Duits, Ltd. (Gallery : London, England)
Physical Description:
26.0 linear feet
(69 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Extant sales and financial records and photographs of the Duits, Ltd. Gallery in London for the period 1920-1979, providing
provenance, sales history, and some expertise on art and antiques (including estates and collections) handled by the firm.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
The firm started as a general dealer in art and antiques in Dordrecht in 1836 before moving to Amsterdam in 1875. In 1920
Charles Duits opened a gallery in London where he was joined by his brother William Henry and both his son, Clifford and grandson
Graham. After 1920 the Duits Gallery concentrated on old masters, with a special interest in Dutch and Flemish works, many
originally handled in association with their Amsterdam gallery, which closed in 1938. The London gallery closed in 1985.
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Duits Ltd. (Gallery: London, England) records, 1920-1979, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 860290.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860290
The Duits Ltd. records were received from the London gallery upon closing business in 1985.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Duits Ltd. records, which represent the extant sales and accounting records from 1924, were received from the London gallery
when the business closed in 1985. Together the stock and sales records, which include two books regarding antiques (1920-1937),
and photographs provide provenance information, sales history, and some expertise on works handled by the firm. Included are
miscellaneous records (ca. 1940-1979) with correspondence and notes on Holbein, El Greco, and other expertises and records
relating to the estates of Borthwick-Norton and du Vere Clinton and the Charles E. Duits collection (ca. 1937-1977).
Arranged in one series.
Borthwick-Norton, H. F. P.
Clifton, Harry Talbot de Vere, 1907-
Cuyp, Aelbert, 1620-1691
Greco, 1541?-1614
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
Antiques
Art dealers--Great Britain
Art dealers--Netherlands
Art--Private collections
Painting, Dutch
Painting, European
Painting, Flemish
Painting--Expertising
Catalogs
Photographic prints
Duits, Charles
Duits, Graham, 1935-