New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-16
ARE THE PICTURES GENUINE
QUEER MR.. GAMAGE's COLLECTION.

HE AID Ills FATHER BEFORE HIM Ihoo'hi
THEM REAL EXAMPLES OF OLD MASTERS.
Tho funeral Of Henry Ten Brook Gamagc the re-
clu,e o the University Building, who WAS fouhd deau
t bi. room ON saturday will take place to-day at
- n in the University Place Presbyterian Church.
which Mr. Gamage attended for many years. MISS
Fanny Dimmick Of Milford. Penn. wh) was the oides'
mans nearest friend. to Ncw-lOrk yes'eFuas
and will take tho BODY to Milford, where II VIII
n. ld beside that of Mr. Gamages father and sister.
Mr. Gamage was seventy four years old and had hVeu
I'm m nprsr room Of the University Buding lor i''S
nine wears lie said his father took the 70 )m. ana
when his father died about 1850, ne rena'nen
there going away OF late years to spend Ills suinuei
in Milford where his 81 ter lived untl her deatn d
tc,y wears ago She left hNr home TO Miss Dimmlck
on condition that her brother shoud "a'o '"0 ~
NJ f. during the summer.
The room with f., store Of pictures and oooR''
where the rccluse lived Is shut to v'sl'or' re" nav,
seen It's treasures, which, II they are wha' 'u "'"e
thought them to be, are worth good deal vi nios
Tribune reporter saw the yesterday In that oia
Gothic building In Washington Square made almost
classic hy "Cecl Dream many places OF interest,"
tut amid them all there is room as curious as t''
~ the old man, and the pictures, whicn nave Dcf''
there nearly fifty years, and which Theodore "htnop
know and mentioned. The room has a skylGht, an
,o.t window and an alcove with north WINDOW.
If, WALLPAPER Is Of geOmerlc pattern once green anu
white In the middle of the floor stands an iron bed'
soma dark cambrlc, years ago become ragged, sela-
rates tho room from the alcOve, where Is worHoen'n'
! "A washStand and the oil stove against Whhh inc orr
man fcu dead. over the window hangs piece Oh
torn burlap and IN tho corner stands stove In when
fire had rarely burned. for Mr.. Gamage reared neat
would hurt hs pictures. and much preferred thelr
preservation t. hi- own comfort
\ handsome Chppendac mahogany case holds a
variety Of books various subjects science, theoogy
natural history and general literature or the latter
some nre MODERN but the greater part are the WORKS
II Queen Annes time. old mahogany chairs ana
,of,, are numerous but there is hardly place to SIT
rnc valuablcs Of one year seem buried anna 'h't
years refuse and layer layer Of things have a'-
cumulncd Letters dated in the seventies lie on the
ION Of the nearest chair. and all about the roon IN
! some places twenty deep, stand pictures WHICH MI
| ramagr believed to bc old masters A row OF heau>
by REYNOLDS Rubens and Others hang upon the souui
| wall and in front Of another large pile stands big
piclurc OF "A nude figure reclining, which the old man
! said was IA vertable Titan. There Is also Nems
,ucz. which Mr. Gamagc valued at $4,000, and an
! . ,.c,nsion7 by Guido. \ large Venus de Medlcl
| stands I'm the corner. and numerous prints Doohs
m.,Iallons and bas relefs lie about That all 'he>e
| ,c,ur.s are genuine IS almost beyond belief hut he
| considered them So and his friends think the same.
! Mr. Carnage did not purchase them They were
| left 10 him by his father. The elder Damages name
! for many years. He married one OF the len hiooh
family and i'm the old Ten Brook house. at ThItleth-
| s. and the East River. Henry was born. lie went
through Yale and studied medicine, but never prcseu
ror time he wa, I'm business with his father and late
! i'm life for few years was In the custom House. out
| for most Of his days he did little but read ana Walk
and think and care for his precious paintings. His
friends ,,y that he by means the misanthrppe
| u.hicb the blind world thought. For years he was
| Afflicted with dcafnes, and extremely sensitive
! les; he should be Il bore to people WHOM ne met
lie also preferred to keep 10 himself the great value
! of hi, pictures lest they Should pe harh'eu
or stolen, and for that reason ne h'eu
| with them and rcflls To allow servants ana lor
that matter any but few friends, TO enter his room
,rh. ,,t,,rrs were purchased on. by one over fifty
v,,,s nc, in Europe by the elder Ganagc. lie be-
| Ueyed th m t. be mdoubted examples OF the oid
masters which had been taken from their places during
| ,bc uuheayal OF the French Revolution, ana Nr.
Gamoges friends say that there Is ample PROOF that
hi, /, tn case. lie purchased the pa"tis' "s al III
| yc,tmcnt for his son and daughter.
rh .,, doe, not seem to have been eccentric wlen
vounr lie was Il classnate Of eN : nator EvartS VINO
SAID yesterday that he remembers hili II, an oiunaI
voung man. lie e. >ceedlngly fond Of botany ana
| rr,g ry and took great delight III walking In ul5
deld, at Milford pointing out a landscape ana sayins
:. Ine,~ T., a ,;ninsbOrough gh," Ihlt valley Is Turner
A., ,;ouIrrn va, a man Of culture and refinement ANA
hi, hermit life grew upon him as habit rathr 'h'h
i'oI Nn' Dimmick when last evening said that
! IN e.. couutry Mr.. Gamase lived "A lie IN no way
| Wnerrnt from other men. She cared for nm wllril
G vraS there She was the cNccutrlN OF III, sl,lef /,
m u and held 5000 in trust for him. She Knew
MI, ~ me real value Of the pictures. MI GhImaSc
hd wished 10 have them form the nucleus OF gallery
% %e Nmn1can art students, and was extremely ahAous
! The, ,ncy should be kept together. lie had been
,ll,nc - sell them for much less than he Thought
liam worth If that could be done lie cid not care
+" have :hem bear his name, but he wanted tnem 70
W, - use TO artists at last. Yet he rarely showcd
| .L,0 This IS said to have been due 10 MS IN
| ;niinrncss to have II known that so many valuable
,ni,r,S were. slowed the old building. Mr.
| P'n,c is known to have said that under proper
Sand'tons aud sold separtely the pictures ought -
| ,,r 100 600. His will makes j. Alden Weir, the
tt Executor and he will have the disposal OF the
mines owing TO recent family afctfohs lie mas
| pc unable TO take any steps In the case .
0e'W Gamase also left 81 5000 in money lie gives
| a-Gn Zach 10 the Home, Foreign and last side Mis-.
go g., If the University Place Presbyterian Church
80 o0 10 an aunt at Chatham Centre ~ 7. She Is deai'
| ~ her children. whose names are shauer are ~
| In" Miss Dimmlck also receives snare ~ me
| n-s,te Numerals other relatives appeared AT ths
I'nivcr,ity Building Yesterday. when II was reported
~ The old man had left money. but none oi thchi
..r, admitted m> The tact t.iut no nad ~
much money was " surprise to many 0i MS liiends.
ntiug 10 the Rev. \ tialdlner formerly pastor vi
be Church at Milford, VINO now stay s
| ~ No % West Twentleth-st They dlo not suppose
hs had been able " save 50 mucu