An April shower broke one day in Manhattan, falling impartially on thousands, including Henry Edwards Huntington. To keep his white mustachios dry, portly "H.E." ducked into an art gallery. Before he ducked out again, he had been sold a Raeburn portrait. Thus impulsively, in 1908, began one of the world's great collecting careers.
Multimillionaire Huntington had inherited one fortune from his railroading Uncle Collis of the Southern Pacific, made a second (in rails, real estate and electric power), and married a third. At 58, he was still working 18 hours a day. Then,...
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