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Editor's Note: Arts & Decoration is pleased to introduce Hamilton Easter Field as reviewer of the current art exhibitions. His many years of study abroad, during which he visited all the principal museum of Europe, his impartiality and absolute sincerity have given his writings an authority both among conservatives and radicals.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)In one of the old houses, after mounting up seven flights, the last one a spiral staircase leading up to heaven, you knock at one of the many doors, and you are welcomed by a Brooklynite, Hamilton Easter Field, who has chosen to make for himself an artistic paradise in Paris. The walls are covered with old tapestries, over which are hung pictures of all kinds, and furniture which could fill a mansion has found house room. All the chests of drawers, which are most curious in themselves, are filled with the rarest of engravings of all schools and the most beautiful collection of Japanese prints. Around the room are hundreds of low, dwarf cases filled with precious books on art. The titles of the books would take a week to read. There is a piano, a harmonium, an engraving press and a corner of the immense studio, separated by precious tapestries doing the service of curtains, is turned into a kitchen, in which are hung several pictures by old masters.
Aaron Field died suddenly Friday night (Apr 9) at the home of his sister, 135 Willow street, Brooklyn. He had arranged to sail for Europe with his wife yesterday. Mr. Field was born in Brooklyn sixty-eight years ago, and for years was employed in the dry goods house of Field, Merrit & Co., of which his father was the head. In 1868 the firm gave up the jobbing line and went into the auction and commission business, and later became the firm of Field, Chapman, Feaner & Co., of which Aaron Field was the head. He was a member of the Long Island Historical Society, the Saturday and Sunday Hospital Association, the Society of Friends, and was a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank. He was married twice. He leaves a widow and four children.