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Arthur Acton. Villa La Pietra, Florence. Arthur Mario Acton (1873–1953) was a British architect, art dealer and collector. [1] Early life. Arthur Acton was the illegitimate son of Eugene Arthur Roger Acton (1836–1895), counsellor to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. Personal life.
Abstract. The visual material in this Archive relates to the lives of the Acton family: Arthur Acton (1873-1953), his wife Hortense Mitchell (1871-1962), and their two sons Harold (1904-1994) and William (1906-1945).
An oil painting dating from between 1907 and 1910 by James Montgomery Flagg, an artist friend of Arthur from New York, is preserved in the Acton Collection. It shows Hortense, in a white summer dress, seated with a book totally at her ease in the vegetable garden, the Pomario.
The Acton Collection decorates the interior of Villa La Pietra with more than 6000 objects from a wide range of styles and media including early Italian panel paintings, Flemish tapestries, Renaissance polychrome sculptures, French dresses, Art Nouveau silver, Chinese ceramics, and Baroque furniture. View Caption.
From the time of Arthur and Hortense’s residence at Villa La Pietra, where they lived all their lives bringing up their two children, Harold and William, there are numerous images, including stereoscopic glass slides, and black-and-white photographs of the family.
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22 de out. de 1995 · The New Yorker, October 30, 1995 P. 33. TALK story about the final outcome of the estate of Sir Harold Action and his villa La Pietra. Upon his death in February of 1994, Acton left his...
