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Reed, Luman (1787–1836)| US business executive and art patron. He subsidized and encouraged such artists as Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Cole and William Sidney Mount. On his death his collection was donated to the New York Historical Society. |
| Born in Austerlitz, New York, his family moved to Coxsackie, New York (c. 1789), and he went to school locally and worked in his father's store. He was a trader on the Hudson River, then joined a New York City grocery business. By 1815 he was a wealthy merchant. |
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