Instrument

  • ID: 1471
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1715
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: Baron Knoop, Bevan
 
Back: Two-piece
Varnish: Rose tint

Photos

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  • front, back & f-hole
  • scroll & side
  • front
  • back
  • side

Iconography Index

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side).

The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole - initialed by Emil Herrmann).

The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1998: Color photos (front & back).

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972: Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll, f-hole & inside).

W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive: Black-and-white photos (Z268 - front, back & side).


Notes

Rembert Wurlitzer christened the instrument the "Baron Knoop" because it was, according to Alfred Hill, the Baron's favorite violin.
The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1998.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
David L. Fulton   1992       
Rony Rogoff (New York)          
Raymond Cerf (Lawrence, Kansas)   1954    1978   
Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.  1954    1954   
J. Frank Otwell (Wilmington, Delaware)  1944       
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.      1944   
J. E. Greiner (Baltimore)         
Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.         
W.E. Hill & Sons         
W.E. Hill & Sons      1914   
...         
Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire)  1914      For members only 
...         
F. L. Bevan (London)  1910       
W.E. Hill & Sons  1910    1910   
Baron Johann Knoop      1910   
C. G. Meier (London)  1881      For members only 
Gand & Bernardel, Freres (Paris)  1881    1881   
Oeschner (le Havre)    1870  1881   
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
...       
Benar Heifetz   1936    1938 
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

References

Homage, James Ehnes, Onyx Classics, 2008.

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Charles-Eugène Gand, Les Amis de la Musique, Spa, 1994.

The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..

The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1998.

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive.

W. E. Hill Business Records (1850 - 1990).

Correspondence with Charles Cerf, May, 2010.