Richard Canfield

Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) Richard A. Canfield, the owner of fashionable gambling houses in New York, Saratoga and Newport, was also a man of culture, and a collector. He sold his very fine collection of works by Whistler to Knoedler’s in 1914 for $300,000. Canfield’s deceptive appearance of respectability caused Whistler to call the portrait ‘His Reverence’.

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