Full Name: Laffan, William M.
Other Names:
- William Mackay Laffan
Gender: male
Date Born: 1848
Date Died: 1909
Home Country/ies: United States
Career(s): art collectors and curators
Institution(s): Trinity College Dublin
Overview
Collector, (Met curator?) and friend of J. P. Morgan.
Selected Bibliography
Engravings on wood, by members of the Society of American wood-engravers, with an introduction and descriptive text by William M. Laffan. Published: New York, Harper and brothers, 1887; and Bushell, Stephen Wootton. Catalogue of the Morgan collection of Chinese porcelains. Published: New York : Privately printed by the order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1904-1911. [auction collection] Catalogue of the ancient and modern paintings and other objects of art collected by the late William M. Laffan to be sold at unrestricted public sale on the dates herein stated [January 20, 21, 1911] The sale will be conducted by Mr. Thomas E. Kirby, of the American art association, managers. Published: New York, 1911.
Sources
mentioned, Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2nd. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1989, p. 136.
Contributors: Lee Sorensen