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James Jackson Jarves
American journalist and art critic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) was an American newspaper editor and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters.
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