Died Unknown Nationality French | Name Gilbert Rorthays | |
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Occupation Art critic, art dealer |
Vicomte Gilbert de Rorthays was a French art critic, art dealer, and the Paris correspondent for The Burlington Magazine.
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Career
In Paris, De Rorthays was the correspondent for The Burlington Magazine for which he filed regular reports on the Paris art scene with the magazine.
From 1911, he dealt from Max Rothschild and Robert René Meyer-Sée's The Sackville Gallery in London before moving to the Marlborough Gallery with Meyer-Sée in August 1912.
In 1912, de Rothrays was one of the committee that organised a display of English eighteenth century art at the offices of Gil Blas in aid of the survivors from the explosion of the French battleship the Liberté.
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