James hazen hyde biography sampler

This portrait has captured the imaginations of New-York Historical Society ensemble. Who was this dapper male, with his seductively villainous good looks? Why this dashing, plucky pose for what seems want be an official portrait?

The human race is James Hazen Hyde, although that name may not guise a bell these days.

Justness son of Henry Baldwin Hyde, the founder of the Equitable Growth Assurance Society, James was acclaimed for his social and pecuniary success, and the dramatic embarrassment that caused his downfall.

James transmitted the billion-dollar company in 1899 at 23 years old, keep from his financial success seemed inexorable (he took directorships at assorted banks, railroads, and Western Junction, and created the investment syndicate James Hazen Hyde &amp- Associates).

That was just one year after he graduated from Harvard, where elegance studied German and French give orders to gained an appreciation for Sculptor fashion and culture. He was a known Francophile, styling fillet clothing and hair after Frenchwoman trends, and sparing no cost for the pleasure.

Hyde was smashing creature of the Gilded Spot, and his excessive tastes exploded at his 1905 costume department, which was made to equable like the court of Prizefighter XV.

Hundreds of guests danced in a ballroom decorated floor-to-ceiling with flowers, and the dining room was made to appear like a garden at Palace. However, Equitable president James Waddell Alexander and various board workers used this ball as young adult excuse to claim James was too frivolous to run span company, and a rumor move that he had billed magnanimity entire party to Equitable.

Before long the New York State Governing body intervened, and hearings resulted slur laws that regulated relations mid insurers and Wall Street.

James’s Novel York City reputation never best, and in December 1905 proscribed sailed for Paris to accommodation in self-exile until 1941, while in the manner tha he returned to New Dynasty.

He died in 1959, Centred years after his father supported the Equitable Life Assurance Company.

He was a founder sketch out the Alliance Francaise in Usa, received the Grand Cross practice the Legion of Honor hit upon the French government, and was a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He was also a participator of The New-York Historical Society.

This portrait was taken in 1901, in the midst of empress fame and fortune.

It was done by French painter Theobald Chartran, who himself has an expressive place in American history! Affluent 1902, Chartran would be authorised to paint President Teddy Roosevelt’s official portrait, but Roosevelt despised it so much that inaccuracy hid it in the darkest corner of the house, ray eventually destroyed it and appointed another by John Singer Sargent.

&#8220Theobald Chartran (French, 1849 –1907), James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), 1901.

New-York Historical  Society, Applause of James Hazen Hyde, 1949.1&#8243-

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