Royall Tyler (May 4, 1884 – March 2, 1953), was an American

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, who was a descendant of the American jurist and playwright Royall Tyler. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and educated at Harrow School in

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. After a time at New College, Oxford, he moved to the

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, where he became a friend of

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. In 1909 he published ''Spain, a Study of her Life and Arts,'' the first work in

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to recognize the genius of El Greco. Appointed by the

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government to edit the ''Calendar of State Papers'' related to negotiations between

and

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in the time of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he published the first of the five volumes of these papers in 1913; the last, completed just before his death, appeared in 1954.

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he served as an

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in the

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. In 1919 he joined the US delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and in 1924 the

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appointed him Financial Advisor to the government of

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. With Hayford Peirce (the older brother of the painter Waldo Peirce) he published in French a pioneering study of

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art, and he died just after completing his posthumously published biography, ''The Emperor Charles the Fifth''. Tyler also helped to inspire and shape the major collections of

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brought together by

Robert Woods Bliss Robert Woods Bliss (August 5, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was an American diplomat, art collector, philanthropist, and one of the co-founders of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Early life Bliss was born in S ...

and

Mildred Barnes Bliss Mildred Barnes Bliss (September 9, 1879 – January 17, 1969) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and one of the cofounders of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Biography Bliss was born in New ...

and housed at

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. He spent most of

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, Switzerland, where he drew on his high-level, Europe-wide connections to perform vital work for the US intelligence network run by

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. He spent his last years in

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, first with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, then as European Representative of the

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