Edward Speelman and the Toledo Museum of Art

https://ia800307.us.archive.org/10/items/europeanpainting00tole/europeanpainting00tole.pdf

In 1976 the Toledo Museum of Art published a 404 page catalog of its European paintings.

(see also: The Legacy of Edward Speelman and Speelman in America)

Speelman is mentioned ten times in the 1967 catalog in connection with the following artworks:

Shepherdess Reading a Sonnet pl. 97 [1628] 

Oil on canvas 41 x 29^ in. (104.2 x 74.9 cm.) Signed and dated upper right: A. Bloemaert. fe:/i628 Ace. no. 55.34
collections: Anthony Aupine, Hoviton, Norfolk?; So- phia Dawson and her descendants, St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor Forest, by 1818-1955; (Sotheby, London, Apr. 6, 1955, lot 96); (Speelman, London).

Otto Wittmann's curious story

Victoria Dubourg by DEGAS at the Toledo Museum of Art
1963.45  http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/55168

Otto Wittmann, director of the Toledo Museum of Art from 1959 to 1977,  tells the "strange story" of how paintings by Degas and Cézanne came to Toledo in his interview "The museum in the creation of community".

According to the website of the Toledo Museum of Art, William Levis donated one Degas and one Cézanne to the Museum. Could these be the same Degas and Cézanne Otto Wittmann says were loaned to the National Gallery of Art by art dealers during World War II?

https://archive.org/details/museumincreation00witt/page/n7
see: Otto Wittmann by Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001, interviewee; Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, compiler; J. Paul Getty Trust, publisher

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WITTMANN: "I'll tell you one strange story about the National Gallery..."