Edward Perry "Ned" Warren (1860-1928) was an American millionaire, art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. Born January 8, 1860, Ned was son of wealthy American paper magnate Samuel D. Warren (1817-1888), who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine, and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) Warren (1825-1901).
--1883, B.A., M.A., Harvard College
--1886, MPhil in Classics and classical archeology, New College, Oxford
At Oxford he met antiquities art collector and archeologist John Marshall (1860–1928), and in 1884 they started a romantic relationship and business partnership that lasted until death. His home in East Sussex, Lewes House, became their home and the center enabling Warren to inhabit the same broad circles of creatives such as Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and Augustus John (1878–1961), as well as collectors including Bernard Berenson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, and Gertrude and Leo Stein.
---He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. He assembling the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings" in the U.S. for the Boston Museum. Warren was a donor or seller for other American institutions with developing antiquities collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Chicago.
--He and John are especially responsible for enriching the Roman and Greek Art Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were the most widely respected antiquities collectors of their day, even if Warren took most of the recognition in consideration of his family wealth and connections.
---He died December 28, 1928 and is buried with John Marshall and Marshall's token wife Mary Ellen (Bliss) Marshall (an unconsummated marriage of convenience) in the Cimitero Inglese, Bagni di Lucca, Italy.
Published works include
**"The Prince who did not Exist," a small edition art book and fable (1900 considered "a most beautiful specimen of workmanship" according to the New York Times **"Classical & American Education" (1918)
**"Itamos; a Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) dedicated "To J.M." (1903)
**"Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (The Greek Coins of the Warren Collection)" (1906)
**"The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) (1909)
**"Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus" (pub: B. H. Blackwell, 1919) Greek legends rendered freely in prose.
**"The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems" (The Clarendon press, 1920; initiated by EPW, completed by JD Beazley)
**"A Tale of Pausanian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile (privately printed, 1928)
**"A Defence of Uranian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) 3 volumes (1928 ) which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece, in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man.
--1883, B.A., M.A., Harvard College
--1886, MPhil in Classics and classical archeology, New College, Oxford
At Oxford he met antiquities art collector and archeologist John Marshall (1860–1928), and in 1884 they started a romantic relationship and business partnership that lasted until death. His home in East Sussex, Lewes House, became their home and the center enabling Warren to inhabit the same broad circles of creatives such as Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and Augustus John (1878–1961), as well as collectors including Bernard Berenson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, and Gertrude and Leo Stein.
---He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. He assembling the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings" in the U.S. for the Boston Museum. Warren was a donor or seller for other American institutions with developing antiquities collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Chicago.
--He and John are especially responsible for enriching the Roman and Greek Art Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were the most widely respected antiquities collectors of their day, even if Warren took most of the recognition in consideration of his family wealth and connections.
---He died December 28, 1928 and is buried with John Marshall and Marshall's token wife Mary Ellen (Bliss) Marshall (an unconsummated marriage of convenience) in the Cimitero Inglese, Bagni di Lucca, Italy.
Published works include
**"The Prince who did not Exist," a small edition art book and fable (1900 considered "a most beautiful specimen of workmanship" according to the New York Times **"Classical & American Education" (1918)
**"Itamos; a Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) dedicated "To J.M." (1903)
**"Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (The Greek Coins of the Warren Collection)" (1906)
**"The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) (1909)
**"Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus" (pub: B. H. Blackwell, 1919) Greek legends rendered freely in prose.
**"The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems" (The Clarendon press, 1920; initiated by EPW, completed by JD Beazley)
**"A Tale of Pausanian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile (privately printed, 1928)
**"A Defence of Uranian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) 3 volumes (1928 ) which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece, in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man.
Edward Perry "Ned" Warren (1860-1928) was an American millionaire, art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. Born January 8, 1860, Ned was son of wealthy American paper magnate Samuel D. Warren (1817-1888), who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine, and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) Warren (1825-1901).
--1883, B.A., M.A., Harvard College
--1886, MPhil in Classics and classical archeology, New College, Oxford
At Oxford he met antiquities art collector and archeologist John Marshall (1860–1928), and in 1884 they started a romantic relationship and business partnership that lasted until death. His home in East Sussex, Lewes House, became their home and the center enabling Warren to inhabit the same broad circles of creatives such as Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and Augustus John (1878–1961), as well as collectors including Bernard Berenson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, and Gertrude and Leo Stein.
---He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. He assembling the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings" in the U.S. for the Boston Museum. Warren was a donor or seller for other American institutions with developing antiquities collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Chicago.
--He and John are especially responsible for enriching the Roman and Greek Art Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were the most widely respected antiquities collectors of their day, even if Warren took most of the recognition in consideration of his family wealth and connections.
---He died December 28, 1928 and is buried with John Marshall and Marshall's token wife Mary Ellen (Bliss) Marshall (an unconsummated marriage of convenience) in the Cimitero Inglese, Bagni di Lucca, Italy.
Published works include
**"The Prince who did not Exist," a small edition art book and fable (1900 considered "a most beautiful specimen of workmanship" according to the New York Times **"Classical & American Education" (1918)
**"Itamos; a Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) dedicated "To J.M." (1903)
**"Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (The Greek Coins of the Warren Collection)" (1906)
**"The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) (1909)
**"Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus" (pub: B. H. Blackwell, 1919) Greek legends rendered freely in prose.
**"The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems" (The Clarendon press, 1920; initiated by EPW, completed by JD Beazley)
**"A Tale of Pausanian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile (privately printed, 1928)
**"A Defence of Uranian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) 3 volumes (1928 ) which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece, in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man.
--1883, B.A., M.A., Harvard College
--1886, MPhil in Classics and classical archeology, New College, Oxford
At Oxford he met antiquities art collector and archeologist John Marshall (1860–1928), and in 1884 they started a romantic relationship and business partnership that lasted until death. His home in East Sussex, Lewes House, became their home and the center enabling Warren to inhabit the same broad circles of creatives such as Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and Augustus John (1878–1961), as well as collectors including Bernard Berenson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, and Gertrude and Leo Stein.
---He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. He has been described as having "a taste for pornography" and was a "pioneer" in collecting it. He assembling the "largest collection of erotic Greek vase paintings" in the U.S. for the Boston Museum. Warren was a donor or seller for other American institutions with developing antiquities collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Chicago.
--He and John are especially responsible for enriching the Roman and Greek Art Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were the most widely respected antiquities collectors of their day, even if Warren took most of the recognition in consideration of his family wealth and connections.
---He died December 28, 1928 and is buried with John Marshall and Marshall's token wife Mary Ellen (Bliss) Marshall (an unconsummated marriage of convenience) in the Cimitero Inglese, Bagni di Lucca, Italy.
Published works include
**"The Prince who did not Exist," a small edition art book and fable (1900 considered "a most beautiful specimen of workmanship" according to the New York Times **"Classical & American Education" (1918)
**"Itamos; a Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) dedicated "To J.M." (1903)
**"Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (The Greek Coins of the Warren Collection)" (1906)
**"The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) (1909)
**"Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus" (pub: B. H. Blackwell, 1919) Greek legends rendered freely in prose.
**"The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems" (The Clarendon press, 1920; initiated by EPW, completed by JD Beazley)
**"A Tale of Pausanian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile (privately printed, 1928)
**"A Defence of Uranian Love by Arthur Lyon Raile" (pseudonym) 3 volumes (1928 ) which proposes a type of same-sex relationship similar to that prevalent in Classical Greece, in which an older man would act as guide and lover to a younger man.
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