The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-02
Head Of Dry Goods Firm Sue
rumbs to Pleurisy Con-
tracted Ten Days Ago.
NOTED AS ART COILECTOR X
Generous in Charities aud Lib.
pral in Gifts to the
Museum.

noted as an art collector. died yesterday
afternoon at his home. ~ East sixty
ninth street.
Mr. Hearn became III OF pieurisy ten
days ago and since then had been in a
serious condition. He had slight rally
At o'clock yesterday afternoon. but
shortly afterward began to sink rapidly
aud died at Z o'clock. His wife. who was
! the daughter Of the late Howell Hoppock.
| aud his three daughters. Mrs. Herbert
| Spencer Greims. Mrs Clarkson Cowl and
! Mrs. George Edgar schanck. were all at
his side when the end came. The funeral
| arrangements have not been made yet
Next Monday Mr.. liearn would have been
| IS years old.
Although Mr. fIearn was famous an
enthusiastic and discriminating purchaser
Of paintings, as we'll an u patron Of young
artists. particularly Americans. he did
not confne his art purchases to pictures
His collection OF worries IL almost as
famous as his pictures and his home has
long been the resting place Of ministures
| bronses early English cabinets. porce-
ians snuff boxes aud other objects which
delighted his artistic eye.
Generous In Ills Chartttea.
His generosit, to the Metropolitan
. Museum OF Art and to the BROOKLYN In
s,tute of Arts and Sciences has been
great he has made several larc. gifts
or money and pictures TO the Metropoli-
tan and IT is though, that others will he
made by his will lie was generous
contributor to charities aud public affairs
Mr. Hearn came from a long lin. of
/ merchants the big dry goods store in
Fourteenth street west OF F'if;n avenue
! of which he WAS the head IL the modern
| home Of small shop started in 1872,
by Aaron Arnold and his nephew George
Arnold Hearn The business was then
! called Arnold d flearn and was located
at Canal and Mercer streets. which was
then pretty far uptown. Another nephew.
James Arnold Hearn. father OF the Mr.
, Hearn who died yesterday. entered the
! firm seven Nea.s sftel II was founded.
| and the company took the name of
! Arnold, Hearn Co Tha; partnership
/ was dissolved IN lsi. and the firm Of
H.aIn Bros, composed ~ Geors" A
Hea,u and James \. hearn. was ->tab-
lished AZ as Broadway
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/ he became more Interested in the work
| Of the early English schools Since that
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he had a stronger leaning toward Ameri-
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he sought the latest expression in the art
of American painters whose work pleased
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