Edward Perry Warren
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Edward Perry Warren (8 June 1860 – 28 December 1928), known as Ned Warren, was an American art collector, and a writer of works proposing an idealised view of homosexual relationships.
He was one of six children of a wealthy family of Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard and later at New College, Oxford where he met John Marshall, with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship. The two set up house together at Lewes House, a large residence in Lewes, East Sussex where they became the centre of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve (now in the Courtauld Institute of Art). He spent much time on the Continent of Europe, collecting art works many of which he sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His published works include A Defence of Uranian Love, which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece, in which an older man would act as guide as well as lover to younger men.
He is perhaps best known today as the purchaser of the Roman silver drinking vessel known as the Warren Cup, which he did not attempt to sell during his lifetime, because of its explicit depiction of homoerotic scenes. It is now in the British Museum. He also commissioned a version of The Kiss from Auguste Rodin which he offered to the local council in Lewes as a gift — it was rejected as "too big and too nude", but is now in the Tate Gallery.
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[edit] Sources
- David Sox, ‘Warren, Edward Perry (1860–1928)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 accessed 5 June 2006
- Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (2006), a 500-page scholarly volume that considers the prominent Victorian writers of Uranian poetry and prose, including Warren (the author has made this volume available in a free, open-access, PDF version).
[edit] References
- David Sox. Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren & the Lewes House Brotherhood. Fourth Estate, 1991.
- Dyfri Williams. The Warren Cup. British Museum Objects in Focus series. British Museum Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7141-2260-1.
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