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Denis Mahon

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English art historian and collector (1910-2011)

United KingdomLived 1910 to 2011 · aged 100
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Sir John Denis Mahon, was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the few art collectors who was also a respected scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and Tancred Borenius, with bringing Italian pre-Baroque and Baroque painters to the attention of...

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2002Companion of Honour
1986Knight Bachelor
1967Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1964Fellow of the British Academy

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Sir John Denis Mahon, was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the few art collectors who was also a respected scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and Tancred Borenius, with bringing Italian pre-Baroque and Baroque painters to the attention of English-speaking audiences, reversing the critical aversion to their work that had prevailed from the time of John Ruskin.

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Lived 1910 to 2011 · aged 100
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