$98,368,058. Residences In 1887, Widener built an ornate mansion (designed by Willis G. Hale) in Philadelphia, at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Girard Avenue. He vacated it 13 years later and donated it (as a memorial for his late wife) to the Free Library of Philadelphia, which used it as a branch library from 1900 to 1946. The building burned in 1980, and it was demolished. In 1900, he completed Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a 110-room Georgian-style mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer. Widener was an avid art collector, with a collection that included more than a dozen paintings by Rembrandt, as well as works by then-new artists Édouard Manet and Auguste Renoir. Art collection Widener amassed a significant art collection that included works by Old Masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Raphael and El Greco, British 18th- and 19th-century paintings, and works by French Impressionist artists such as Corot, Renoir, Degas and Manet. About 1905, he purchased the crucifixion panel from Rogier van der Weyden's Crucifixion Diptych (1460) in Paris. The following year he sold it to John G. Johnson, who reunited the two halves and later donated them to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Widener's son Joseph donated more than 300 works—including paintings, sculpture, metalwork, stained glass, furniture, rugs, Chinese porcelains, and majolica—to the National Gallery of Art in 1942. Note: The artworks below are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, unless otherwise listed. Old Masters British paintings French Impressionism 20th century Decorative arts See also Rhône (The) v. Peter A.B. Widener (The) (a barge named after Widener was involved in a collision in Canada, which became a noted court case) Widener University References External links Article on Widener and Widener Mansion in Philadelphia, PhillyHistory.org. 1834 births 1915 deaths American transportation businesspeople American art collectors Widener family Businesspeople from Pennsylvania People from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania 19th-century American businesspeople Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)