The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-02
ELIOT GREGORY, ART
WORLD LEADER DIES
Was Director Of Metropolitan
Opera and a Founder Of
New Theatre.
HAD STROKE OF APOPLEXY

Eliot Gregory, artist. writer, director
Of the Metropolitan Opera Company and
one OF the founders of the New Thea
tire. died OF apoplexy YESTERDAY morn
Ing In his apartment In the Stratford
House. II East Thirty-second street.
He had been in poor health for some
time. but was able to be about town.
When he BECAME worse early yesterday
morning his valet called Dr. William l..
Wheeler of the Pasteur institute. who
had attended MIR. Gregory for some time.
and Dr. Robert |. Irish. the hotel physi-
clan, but he d.ed a few hours later.
Mr.. Gregory was n son of James q.
Gregory. n New York BOOK pupiisne'.
He was born October IL. 1854. was
graduated from Yale with the class OF
1850 and went abroad to study art. He
studied at the BeauN Arts In Paris and
was a pupil of Carolus Duran. John =
Sargent was a fellow student. one OF
Mr.. Gregory's paintings, "Coquettelie.'
won honorable mention at the Salon.
on his return to New York Mr.. Greg
DRY established a studio In the OH
Alpine Building at broadway and Th.r-
ty-third street and later In the tri-
angular building IN the north end OF
Madison Square. at Fifth avenue and
Twenty-ffth street.
Mr.. Gregory was one Of the FIRST to
introduce into New York the European
idea of studio life. The studio under
the caves was n meeting place for ar
lists. musicians. writers and persons
prominent In the social life of the city.
Many of the more notable foreign ar
lists visiting New York have been en-
tertained there. Possessed of a cons
Portable income. Mr.. Gregory did not
devote himself constantly to his painting
He wrote on n varicty OF subjects. some
rpnnpgt.H With artistic n1lttarS and soma
not. for the Atlantic Monthly, Hdrpor's
Century, Scribrer's the Nation aud
other magazines and for many years
his "1dler Papers" appeared In the New
York Evening Post.
a number of his essays were grouped
together later in two volumes.
Worldly Ways and Bvways' and The
Ways of Men For the most part his
writings were published under the zen
name OF IAN Idler.'' He WAS regarded
MS an authority on artistic and literary
subjects and had n wide acquaintance
with both professionals and amateurs.
Mr.. Gregory FOR many years was ac-
lively identified with Newport. where
his aunt, Mrs. Charles II. Baldwin,
widow Of Rear Admiral Baldwin, has a
country home, Snug Harhor." II was
his custom TO go abroad for the latter
part OF February or first Of March each
year. remaining until August. and then
going to Newport for the late summer
and fall. His work AZ a painter was
confined chiefly to portraiture. He
painted a portrait Of Ada Rehan a.
Katherine In the Tanning Of the
Shrew." for the latae Augustin DAILY.
This painting hung in the lobby OF
Days Theatre and after the sale OF
the DAILY pictures was sent to England.
where II now hangs in the Shakespeare
house at Standardization. Another
work was "A portrait OF Gen. Cullom,
now hung In the Cullom Memorial at
West Point.
Among those whose portraits he
painted were the late Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, August Belmont, the late Mrs
John Sherwood, Mrs. Richard WINS.
members OF the Vanderbilt family, and
the late Mrs. James G. Aver. TIE por-
trait OF Mrs. Aver Is now in the pos
session OF her daughter, Mrs. Frederick
Pearson.
OF recent years Mr.. Gregory had
largely given up painting and devoted
himself rather to writing and TO his
interest in the METROPOLITAN Opera
House and the New Theatre project.
He was a chevalicr OF the Legion OF
Honor and "A member OF the Knicker-
booker Club.
Mr.. Gregory never married. A
brother. Henry s. Gregory OF 200 West
Fifty-sixth street and a sister. Mrs
John l. Jackson Of Washington, d. c.,
survive him.
The funeral will he held at 4 O'Clock
Tomorrow afternoon NJ the Green Wood
Cemetery Chapel. brooklyn.