Denis Mahon

For the Irish officer, see Denis Mahon (British Army officer).
Not to be confused with Dennis Mahon.

Sir Denis Mahon
Mahon in 1980
Born
John Denis Mahon

(1910-11-08)8 November 1910
London, England
Died24 April 2011(2011-04-24) (aged 100)[1]
33 Cadogan Square, London, England[2]
Occupation(s)Art collector and historian
The Fall of Phaeton (c. 1624) by Johann Liss. Denis Mahon collection (on loan to the National Gallery, London)

Sir John Denis Mahon, CH, CBE, FBA (8 November 1910 – 24 April 2011)[1] was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the few art collectors who was also a respected scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and Tancred Borenius,[3] with bringing Italian pre-Baroque and Baroque painters to the attention of English-speaking audiences, reversing the critical aversion to their work that had prevailed from the time of John Ruskin.

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