Excerpt from Illustrated Catalog to an Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters
The few representatives of America who were present last May at the Salle de Vente of the Firm of Muller at Amsterdam, when the thirty-two drawings by Rembrandt from the Heseltine Collection were disposed of, were rather sadly impressed by the fact that none of these treasures found its way to America, otherwise so ready a competitor for Masterpieces of Art. Thus we had to see that the priceless sketches of the brush and pen of the greatest genius among all draftsmen were picked up by institutions, collectors or their agents and dealers of France, Germany and Holland, at prices which exceeded five times the amount of the limits set by the only competing American collector.
Why is it, that with the exception of one great collector, whose love for things great and beautiful covered all grounds, the American Collector at large has so far refrained from devoting his attention to a field, which for the connoisseur of highest art offers the greatest delight and also the greatest opportunities?
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