PETER PAILLOU (BRITISH, FL. C. 1757 - AFTER 1831)

August Belmont (1813-1890) had been a clerk in the Rothschild's Frankfurt office before he travelled to America where he became their New York agent. It had been intended that he should establish a business in Havana but when he arrived in New York in 1837 he found himself in the middle of a financial crisis and took it upon himself to sort out the business of the Rothschild's agents in New York and having completed this, settled in New York. He was a frequent visitor to the Rothschilds in London in the 1860s and emulated their collecting passion.
We are grateful to Melanie Aspey, Director of the Rothschild Archive, for her help with this catalogue entry.

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Pre-Lot Text

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR