Jorge Bonsor and The Hispacic Society of America: collecting art and archeology in the first third of nineteenth century, Jorge Maier Allende

Abstract

Jorge Bonsor Saint Martin (Lille, 1855- Mairena del Alcor, 1930), director of the Museum of Roman Necropolis of Carmona between 1885 and 1930, a pioneer of modern archeology in Spain, was at the same time an active art dealer, a facet somewhat unknown among his outstanding activity in the cultural Seville straddling the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His main acquirer was Archer Milton Huntington, founder of The Hispanic Society of America, with whom he worked closely, although he also worked for the renowned British art gallery Thomas Agnew. Bonsor also assembled an interesting collection of Spanish art, including the series of paintings of the life of Santa Clara de Juan Valdes Leal.