Harry Payne Bingham

Henry Payne Bingham (December 9, 1887 – March 25, 1955) was an American financier, sportsman, art patron and philanthropist.

[5] In 1937, he joined the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with Vanderbilt Webb and Arnold Whitridge.

[6] Later, he served as vice-president and donated to the Museum, including Peter Paul Rubens's Venus and Adonis, which he gave in 1928.

[3] In 1933, he gave "Omega", the 645 acre estate he inherited from his uncle to the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York.

[3] In the 1920s he led a series of expeditions on his private yacht, the "Pawnee", that included biologist Albert Eide Parr and natural history illustrator Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson brought specimens and illustrations of marine life, donating them to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

[5] After their marriage, they lived together at 690 Park Avenue, the former home of Henry P. Davison which today houses the Consulate General of Italy.

He sold the car in 1938 and, went through a succession of owners, including the Western Union Telegraph Company which used it as a mobile communications facility.