Horace A Kelley was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
15 Facts About Horace Kelley
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Horace Kelley is considered to be one of the founders of the museum along with John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Jeptha Wade II.
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Horace A Kelley was born on July 18,1819, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, as the only child of mother Betsey Gould Kelley and father Joseph Reynolds Kelley.
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Horace Kelley's uncle worked as a merchant involved in trade through Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and later in the banking and real estate businesses.
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Horace Kelley had another uncle, Alfred Horace Kelley, who was a banker and prominent figure in Ohio's politics of the first half of the 19th century.
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Horace Kelley was known to have attended a Cleveland classical preparatory school established by Franklin Thomas Backus upon Backus leaving Yale College in 1836.
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Horace Kelley sold his interests in limestone and lumber on the island in 1845, and returned to Cleveland.
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Horace Kelley died on December 4,1890, in Cleveland, and is buried at Lake View Cemetery.
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Horace Kelley made his first trip to Europe in 1868 for health reasons, where he was first exposed to art museums.
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Horace Kelley made four more trips to Europe and collected artwork that would later become part of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Eight days before his death, Horace Kelley signed a will that would leave a majority of his estate for an art gallery.
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Horace Kelley viewed the art gallery as a place that would attract gifts of artwork and sums of money, suggesting to name the gallery the "National Gallery of Fine Arts".
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Horace Kelley conditioned that "no work of art unless of acknowledged merit" be admitted into the gallery.
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Horace Kelley named three trustees to his estate: his cousin Alfred S Kelley, judge James M Jones, and Henry C Ranney, a lawyer and trustee of the estates of Cleveland Museum of Art founders Hinman Hurlbut and John Huntington.
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Horace Kelley is considered one of the founders of the Cleveland Museum of Art, along with John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Jeptha Wade II.