Louis Michel van Loo, (Flemish, 1707–1771), Portrait of La Comtesse de Beaufort (detail), c. 1760, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 40 in., Gift of the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Menello and Michael A. Menello, in honor of Rollins College President Rita Bornstein, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 1995.1
European Art
Collecting European art at Rollins College began long before the Rollins Museum of Art came into being. Major gifts of Italian Renaissance paintings in the 1930s (among them a couple of Kress paintings) inaugurated the Old Masters collection and inspired others to add to it. Significant Renaissance and Baroque paintings, as well as works by 18th, 19th, and 20th century masters were acquired through the decades. Today, the European art collection, which includes paintings, prints and drawings spanning six centuries, continues to be a collection strength.