Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Old European masters and heirloom silver filling a nineteenth-century brewer's mansion and preserved private rooms.
This guide to the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki asks how far you would go to build a hoard so covetable that a national museum later tries and fails to buy pieces from you. It follows brewer's heir Paul Sinebrychoff and his wife, the Swedish actress Fanny Grahn, from their eighteen eighty-three honeymoon through Europe's galleries into decades of relentless bidding at Stockholm auctions for Dutch, Flemish, and Swedish masters. You'll hear how the family brewery, founded in this very building in eighteen forty-two, funded the habit. Their preserved private rooms upstairs still hold much of what they bought.
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