artists during his lifetime, including: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Anders Zorn. He met Tanner on December 6, 1897. The artist had lived in Paris since 1891. Curtis became an ardent supporter of his art, as well as a true friend to an artist who had struggled financially, as well as suffered from depression. Such acceptance of friendship Tanner later used the composition of this portrait in a painting of Christ sitting down to dinner with Lazarus and his sister. As an art connoisseur he wrote for magazines such as The Studio, both the UK and the International edition aimed at the American market. Many of his articles were about illustrators and masters of lithography, such as Adolphe Appian, Amédée Joyau (1872-1913), Charles Meryon, Evert van Muyden, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Auguste Raffet, Théophile Steinlen and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler was an American living in Europe who had lived in Stonington (borough), Connecticut as a child, the home of his own grandmother, Clarissa Farnham and great-grandmother Sally Grant. His personal collection included works from the late artists; Richard Parkes Bonington, Hiroshige, Hokusai and Eugene Isabey. His fellow wealthy contemporaries included Walter Gay, who was also a notable collector of artworks. Following Gay's death in 1937, his widow donated some 200 works of Dutch, Italian, English and French paintings, drawings and illustrations to the Louvre indicating something of the collection's importance. Curtis and Walter Gay are recorded in the top 3 foreign nationals who in 1934 were “Friends of the Louvre” and important donors. The other was the philanthropist and future US vice president, Nelson Rockefeller. Neighbors included Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas and even during the final years Curtis and his wife had visits from Matisse, Zelda Fitzgerald and F Scott Fitzgerald. Personal He was the son of George N. Curtis, a successful merchant, originally from Bangor, Maine, who moved his business to New York in 1854. The family wealth was derived from patent medicine such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Neither Curtis or his younger brother George Warrington Curtis, appear to have shown any interest in entering the family business, instead focusing on the arts and foreign travel, having been introduced to transatlantic voyages to Europe at a young age, by their father and mother, Eliza. Both brothers aspired to be artists. On August 14, 1894 Curtis married Louise Burleigh (1869-1910) in Geneva, Switzerland. His wife was from Maine, as