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Boston Post, Friday, December 2, 1910

Frick Art Collection Exhibit Opens Today

Henrietta, Countess of Warwick by Romney, Included in the Frick Art Exhibit at the Boston Art Museum

  Not since the opening days of the Museum of Fine Arts has there been such a brilliant and representative attendance of leaders in Boston's artistic, social and intellectual circles as there was yesterday at the private exhibition of Henry Clay Frick's notable collection of paintings to the annual subscribers to the museum and their invited guests.

Open to Public Today

  The exhibition will be open to the public under the usual museum conditions for two weeks beginning today.
  The importance of yesterday afternoon's exhibition was realized by Mr. Frick himself, who spent several hours in the morning examining the light effects that had been gained in the [?and?ing] and noting carefully the effect [???] gained by a general view of the [???] ings.
  At the head of the main stage [???] the entrance to the Frick [???] on the right, a group of  [???] their wives, received the [???]

In the receiving party, [???] companies by their wives, [???] Thayer, Francis Bartlett, [???] Gray, Henry Sargent Hu [???] Lee Higginson,

  Waldo Forbes, Gardiner Martin Lane, A. Shuman, Arthur Tracy Cabot, John Templeton Coolidge, Jr., Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Holker Abbott, Abbott Lawrence Rotch, Josiah Henry Benton, Jr., and Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
  Rembrandt and Frans Hals seemed to attract the most attention from the capable critics in attendance yesterday, although many expressions of appreciation were drawn by the Corots and the other representatives of the recent French School.
  "The Polish Rider," the Rembrandt for which Mr. Frick is said to have paid $300,000, was the most popular painting of all.