Ian Chilvers, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, 4th edn (online version, 2009); Hannah Yip.
Ian Chilvers, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, 4th edn (online version, 2009)
Henry Edwards Huntington was born on 27 February 1850 in Oneonta, NY. He made his fortune primarily from the railway industry. Huntington began collecting books from 1903, and retired from his business interests to devote himself to collecting from 1910. Notable purchases included the E. Dwight Church Library of Americana and the Bridgewater House Library. His interests in art centred primarily on British paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1919, he established the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. He died on 23 May 1927 in Philadelphia, PA. For more information about Huntington, see William B. Friedricks, Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1992) and James Thorpe, Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1994).