biography
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Barnes, Albert Coombs
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1951)
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist and art collector, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Philadelphia Medical School (1892 MD), and interned at the State Hospital of the Insane, Warren, PA. After study and travel in Europe, he devoted himself to chemical research, developing a new antiseptic, Argyrol (1902), that made him a fortune. By 1905 he began collecting late 19th-c and early 20th-c French art, wrote several books on art, and in 1922 established the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA where he housed his collection. Dogmatic in his ideas about art, and cantankerous in his dealings with art professionals, he allowed only a select few individuals to view his collection during his lifetime. |
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