Henry Joseph Pfungst

Henry Joseph Pfungst was a British collector, wine merchant and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London. Initial research suggests that Pfungst mostly collected Italian bronzes, faience, and drawings. He owned about 80 drawings by Thomas Gainsborough and presented several other works to the British Museum between 1889 and 1914. Christie’s London sold his collection on 15 June 1917.    Henry Pfungst owned two paintings that entered the Adolphe Schloss Collection: Gabriel Metsu’s “Dentellière endormie_” and Willem Duyster’s “Cavalier et dame lisant une lettre“._  Both works were sold to the Sonderauftrag Linz and transferred to the Führerbau on 24 November 1943. Willem Duyster’s work was restituted to the Schloss heirs on 31 May 1949 and sold at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 5 December 1951, lot 20 (Fr.365,000). Metsu’s work was repatriated to Paris on 27 March 1946.     

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