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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.
24 de dic. de 2016 · El jardín cuenta con una gran colección de estatuas de Arthur Acton recogidas, muchas de Orazio Marinali de Vicenza y Bonazza Antonio de Padua. La casa original fue construida en el siglo XV por la familia Macinghi. Lleva el nombre de un hito que utiliza para marcar su distancia de Florencia.
In 1903, Hortense Mitchell Acton, daughter of a prominent Chicago banking family, and her husband Arthur Acton took up residence at La Pietra, joining a thriving community of culturally passionate expatriates. They immersed themselves in a diverse Florentine society of writers, historians, artists and art collectors.
Villa La Pietra is a renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It was formerly the home of Arthur Acton and later of his son Harold Acton, on whose death in 1994 it was bequeathed to New York University. [1] : 18 The villa is now home to NYU Florence .
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.
Photograph Archive. The visual material in this Archive relates to the lives of the family: Hortense Mitchell (1871-1962), her husband, Arthur Acton (1873-1953), and their two sons Harold (1904-1994) and William (1906-1945).
22 de oct. de 1995 · A Legacy Up For Grabs. 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 ...
