Frank Lusk Babbott
Date of birth: 1854
Place of birth: Waterville, NY
Date of death: 1933
Place of death: Brooklyn NY
Category: collector
Identity:
Frank Lusk Babbott was a businessman and collector and philanthropist. He married Lydia Richardson Pratt, daughter of Lydia Richardson and Charles Pratt, in 1877.
Life:
As a young man Babbott studied law; later he became director of the Chelsea Jute Mills, New York, 1883-1901.
Babbott had a strong taste for literature, art and education and held a number of honorary posts, including trusteeships of Brooklyn, New York Board of Education, Vassar College and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
He purchased Rose and Gold: 'Pretty Nellie Brown' y451 from the Fine Art Society in August 1900. He visited Whistler's studio on a trip to London in September 1902.
In 1905, Babbott published Poems of John Donne: selected from his songs, sonnets, elegies, letters, satires and divine poems.
Bibliography:
Platt, D. F., and F. N. Price, The collection of Frank Lusk Babbott (1854-1933), New York, 1934; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
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