Grenville Lindall Winthrop

Grenville Lindall Winthrop (1864–1943) was an American lawyer and art collector from New York City.

[1] Winthrop co-founded a law firm in New York City with James B. Ludlow and Frederick Philips.

"[5] He was influenced from an early age by Charles Eliot Norton and his nephew, Francis Bullard, two prominent art collectors from Boston.

[2] He was assisted in assembling his collection by Martin Birnbaum, an art dealer from New York City.

[8] He owned the largest individual collection of paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and William Blake.

[1] Additionally, he owned paintings by Edward Burne-Jones, Honoré Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Gustave Moreau, Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Aubrey Beardsley.

[1][7] Winthrop served on the Visiting Committee of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University for twelve years.

[1] They summered at Groton Place, a 150-acre estate spreading across the Baldhead Mountain in Lenox, Massachusetts, whose main house was designed by Carrère and Hastings and whose grounds included 500 peacocks and pheasants.

[1][7] Winthrop was described by art critic Richard Dorment as "a figure straight out of the pages of Henry James.

Winthrop at Harvard, c. 1886
c. 1911
The Fogg Art Museum, home to the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection