The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Library, art museum, and botanical gardens spanning desert, Japanese, and rose collections.
This guide to The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Los Angeles opens on Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of a boy in blue satin, and the two French words penciled on the back before it left England in 1921: au revoir. It follows the record-breaking price the American railroad magnate Henry Huntington paid the Duke of Westminster for it, and the ninety thousand Londoners who filed past for a farewell viewing, with mourning newspapers and a theater number staging its departure. Henry's fortune, built with his wife Arabella, once married to his own uncle, the railroad tycoon Collis Huntington, shaped the library and gardens spreading out around you.
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