CHARLES JOEL DUVEEN Charles Joel Duveen, who went by the trade names of C.J. Charles and Charles of London, was the second son of twelve brothers and sisters born to Joel Joseph Duveen (later, Sir Joseph Joel Duveen), co-founder of Duveen Brothers, and his wife, Rosetta Duveen. Born in 1871, Charles Duveen died in 1940 after an illustrious career as an interior decorator, in which capacity he often imported from the castles and manors of England entire rooms for the installation and enjoyment of his clients in America. Duveen is the author of, among other books and articles, Elizabethan Interiors (1911). He married Anna Kohler in 1919, and the couple had one son, Charles Joel Duveen, Jr. In 1941, Charles Jr. married Anneta Applebaum, featured on this website as the artist, Anneta Duveen, and the couple had three children.




INTERIOR OF CJD'S DEN IN HIS HOME IN ENGLAND



ELIZABETHAN INTERIORS

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