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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160
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April 14, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Judith Proffitt
or Catherine Rogers Arthur
410-516-5589,
homewood@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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Riversdale's Old Masters Collection
A Lecture at Homewood House
The Homewood House
Museum
at The Johns Hopkins University will offer a glimpse of one
family's extraordinary
collection of priceless art in a slide lecture titled The
Collection of Old World Paintings
at Riversdale Plantation in the Stier-Peeters Family, at 6 p.m.
on Wednesday, May 19,
at Homewood House, 3400 N. Charles Street. The lecture will be
given by art historian
Susan G. Pearl.
Pearl has done extensive research into the art collection, which
was originally brought
from Flanders, Belgium around the time of the French Revolution
by the Stier family,
descendent of Peter Paul Rubens. The family brought their
collection of Rubens,
Antony Van Dyck and David Teniers paintings to this country for
safe keeping. They
settled at Riversdale, in Prince George's Co., Md., and the
collection remained there in
its entirety from 1802 to 1816. During the lecture, Pearl will
point out a Stier-owned Van
Dyck study for Rinaldo and Armida, the final masterpiece
of which can be
viewed locally in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of
Art.
Admission to the slide lecture is $2 for the general public, free
to Homewood members
and Johns Hopkins staff and students. To make reservations, or
for more information,
please call 410-516-5589.
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