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Key COVER FEATURE MASTERPIECES COMING REMBRANDT, VAN DYCK, GAINSBOROUGH: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ON OCT. 12, THE MILWAUKEEArt Museum opens Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, an exhibition of 48 masterpieces, many of which have rarely been seen outside of London. On tour from the Iveagh Bequest collection, most of the paintings have never traveled to the U.S. before. The exhibition, organized by the American Federation of Arts and English Heritage, will be in Milwaukee until Jan. 13, 2013. The Iveagh Bequest collection resides at Kenwood House, a neoclassical villa in London that Scottish architect Robert Adam remodeled in the eighteenth century. Donated to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) and heir to the world's most successful brewery, the 8 collection was shaped by the tastes of the Belle Époque – Europe's equivalent to America's Gilded Age –when the earl shared the cultural stage and art market with other industry titans such as the Rothschilds, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick. The earl's purchases, made mainly between 1887 and 1891, reveal a taste for the portraiture, landscape and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish works that were typically found in English aristocratic collections. "It is an honor to collaborate with Kenwood House and with the American Federation of Arts to host this exquisite collection of masterworks," said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. "This priceless collection holds significance the world-over. It speaks volumes about our museum, and the reputation it has established internationally, that Rembrandt, Van