The Sedgwick Collection of Old Master Paintings

Acquired by the AD&A Museum in 1960, the Mr. and Mrs. Francis Minturn Sedgwick Collection represents one of the earliest bequests to the Fine Arts Collection with its stated goal of establishing a university museum “comparable to the FitzWilliam Museum at Cambridge and the Fogg Museum at Harvard.” A businessman and sculptor in his own right, Mr. Sedgwick donated twenty canvases by French, Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German artists of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, including the striking Renaissance work Portrait of an Infanta by Juan de Flandes, a Flemish artist active in Spain from 1496-1516. The Sedgwick Collection affords visitors the opportunity to experience Renaissance and Baroque paintings in an intimate setting whereby regional developments in style and subject matter can be compared. In addition, the Sedgwick Collection belongs to the artistic heritage of Santa Barbara. Active in banking, ranching and the arts, Francis Sedgwick’s significant contributions to UC Santa Barbara include his donation of what amounted in 1967 to the largest single private gift in the history of the University. Mr. Sedgwick was instrumental in bringing the Morgenroth Collection of Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes to its home at the AD&A Museum.

The Sedgwick Collection of Old Master Paintings