The Wuerpel–Bowles Estate Collection in Falls Church, VA Online Auction

Offered from Falls Church, Virginia, is the important and historical estate of Edmund Addison Bowles. This collection reflects several generations of affluent families deeply engaged with art, weaving, music, and collecting the finest coveted antiquities and artifacts from all over the world. Bowles was the grandson of Edmund Henry Wuerpel and Minnie Clay Wuerpel of St. Louis, through their daughter Lois Wuerpel Bowles. Edmund H. Wuerpel was a painter and dean of the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and his paintings are highly sought after and are in the inventory of many major museums around...