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The Wernher collection finds a home. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
Sir Julius Wernher was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1850 and came to England at the age of twenty-one. His business aptitude was recognized first by the diamond merchant Theodore Porges in Paris and then by Jules Porges in London. The latter sent him to South Africa to act as his agent in the mining town of Kimberley. By 1875 Jules Porges's firm had become the largest English importer of Cape diamonds. By 1881 the young Wernher had made his fortune and returned to England, although he still made long trips to South Africa.
He continued to work in the diamond business, becoming a director of De Beers. In 1888 he married a society beauty, Alice Sedgwick Mankiewicz, and together they set about forming an art collection with the advice of the German art historian Wilhelm von Bode.
The collection was unusual in Britain at the time because it was largely northern European in content. Most other buyers were interested exclusively in the art of either Britain or southern Europe, and although Wernher preferred the art of the north ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Wernher collection finds a home. (Report from Europe).(Brief...