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Marquand was born in New York City on April 11, 1819, not long after the death of his eldest brother Henry Marquand in Havana, Cuba in October 1818. He was the second youngest of the eleven children of Mehitable "Mabel" ({{nee}} Perry) Marquand (1778–1855) and silversmith Isaac Marquand (1766–1838), whose family immigrated from Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Among his other siblings were Frederick Marquand, Cornelius Paulding Marquand, Josiah Penfield Marquand, Sarah Elizabeth ({{nee}} Marquand) Trask, and Julia Perry Marquand.{{cite book |last1=Weeks |first1=Lyman Horace |title=Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City |date=1898 |publisher=Historical Company |page=396 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyRKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA396 |access-date=21 July 2022 |language=en}}

At the age of fifteen, Henry began working for his family's prestigious jewelry business, Marquand & Co.[http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/Henry_Gurdon_Marquand_Papers_b17500448.pdf Finding aid for the Henry Gurdon Marquand Papers, 1852-1903]. At the time, the business was headed by his older brother Frederick, a liberal benefactor of Yale College, Union Theological Seminary, and founder of Pequot Library.{{cite book |last1=Saltzman |first1=Cynthia |title=Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I |date=2008 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-670-01831-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8FQzgAL_aUC&pg=PA23 |access-date=21 July 2022 |language=en}}

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Following the death of their father in 1838, Frederick sold the business, which was then renamed Ball, Tompkins & Black, and took up real estate investment and other financial ventures, and Henry was his brother's agent.{{cite news |title=FREDERICK MARQUAND'S WILL. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/09/23/102930062.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=September 23, 1882 |page=8 |language=en}} After selling the company, Frederick later became instrumental in the establishment of Southport's Pequot Library, a special collections institution. Henry established himself as a banker on Wall Street, became Director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and eventually made a fortune speculating on foreign currency exchange and railroads. In 1867, Henry and his brother-in-law, Thomas Allen, bought a chief interest in the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway which ran from St. Louis to southeast Missouri and to Arkansas and Texas. The two were ultimately pushed out of their investment by Jay Gould, whose monopoly on the southwestern railroad system forced them to sell. With a profit of one million dollars, Marquand effectively retired from the business world in 1880 and focused his energies on the acquisition of art and the management of the fledgling Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Marquand was a member of the Provisional Committee of fifty men assembled in 1869 to establish a museum of art in New York City. As a member of the building committee and president of the museum's board of trustees,[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3259465 Heckscher, Morrison H. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Architectural History." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 53, no. 1 (Summer 1995): 1-80.] he witnessed the physical growth of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from various temporary quarters to its permanent home on the eastern edge of Central Park. Marquand, a personal friend and client of museum architect Richard Morris Hunt, was in large part responsible for the realization of the project to extend and reorient the distinctive Beaux-Arts façade entrance east to Fifth Avenue, pushing for the plans to be carried out by Hunt's son (Richard Howland Hunt) after the death of the renowned architect. He was also the first honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. Marquand was also a significant contributor to the museum's collection, particularly in the area of European paintings.{{cite news |title=MR. MARQUAND'S GREAT GIFT. |work=New York Times |date=16 January 1889 |id = {{ProQuest|94683872}}}} This donation included, among other old master works, Johannes Vermeer's Woman with a Water Jug, the first Vermeer to enter a United States collection and which scholars now agree is one of only thirty-seven known works by the artist.

Marquand was also a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools[http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/Schools_Records_b18062179.pdf Finding aid for Schools of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Records (1879-1895)]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 July 2014. and Princeton University, donating funds for the creation of the Bonner-Marquand Gymnasium and the Marquand Chapel (the latter designed by Richard Morris Hunt).{{cite web |url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/text_Marquand.html |title=Princeton University: An Interactive Campus History, 1746-1996. Marquand Chapel |author=Princeton University |accessdate=11 July 2014 |archive-date=14 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314021932/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/text_Marquand.html |url-status=dead }}

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On May 20, 1851, Marquand was married to Elizabeth Love Allen. She was a daughter of Jonathan Allen and Eunice Williams ({{nee}} Larner) Allen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Together, they were the parents of six children, including:{{cite book |last1=Dwight |first1=Benjamin Woodbridge |title=The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass |date=1871 |publisher=J. Munsell |page=969 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWJmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA969 |access-date=21 July 2022 |language=en}}

• Linda Marquand (1852–1931),{{cite news |title=MRS. RODERICK TERRY DIES IN NEWPORT HOME; Wife of Retired New York Pastor and Daughter of the Late Henry Marquand. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/05/29/archives/mrs-roderick-terry-dies-in-newport-home-wife-of-retired-new-york.html |access-date=20 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 May 1931}} who married the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, son of banker John T. Terry.{{cite news |title=THE REV. DR. TERRY DEAD IN NEWPORT; Philanthropist and Long Civic Leader, 84, Was Chaplain in Spanish–American War. PASTOR HERE 24 YEARS Newport Historical Society and Redwood Library Head--Noted as Collector of Books. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/12/29/archives/the-my-dr-terry-dead-in-newport-philanthropist-and-long-civic.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 December 1933}}
• Allan Marquand (1853–1924),{{cite news |title=ALLAN MARQUAND, ARCHAEOLOGIST, DIES; Head of Department at Princeton Succumbs Here at 70 After a Long Illness. ON THE FACULTY 48 YEARS Author Aided in Building Princeton's Art Museum and Contributed His Own Library |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/09/25/101614595.pdf |access-date=27 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 September 1924}} who graduated from Princeton in 1874 and became professor of archaeology and art in 1883; he married Eleanor Cross, daughter of Richard James Cross,{{cite news |title=Mrs. Allan Marquand |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/02/28/113145786.pdf |access-date=27 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=28 February 1950}} in 1896.{{cite news |title=A DAY'S WEDDINGS.; Marquand -- Cross. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/06/19/104157187.pdf |access-date=27 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=19 June 1896}}
• Frederic Alexander Marquand (1855–1885), a who married Alice Ogston, daughter of George William Ogston.{{cite news |title=FREDERICK MARQUAND'S WILL. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1882/09/23/archives/frederick-marquands-will.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 September 1882}} After his death, she married Graeme Harrison.{{cite book |last1=Troelstra |first1=Anne S. |title=Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives |date=17 January 2017 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-34378-8 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaclDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 |access-date=21 July 2022 |language=en}}
• Henry Marquand (1857–1921),{{cite news |title=Died -- MARQUAND |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/13/archives/obituary-3-no-title.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=13 July 1921}} a banker who married Katherine Cowdin, a daughter of New York State Assemblyman Elliot Cowdin.{{cite news |title=Deaths -- MARQUAND |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/04/05/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 April 1928}}
• Mabel Marquand (1860–1896),{{cite news |title=DIED -- WARD |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/11/25/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=25 November 1896}} who married Justice Henry Galbraith Ward,{{cite news |title=H. G. WARD DEAD; ONCE JURIST HERE --- Former Presiding Judge of Federal Circuit Court Was in 83d Year. -- SUCCUMBS IN SON'S HOME -- His Body Is Found In Bathroom of Summer Residence at Shelter Island, L. I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/08/25/archives/h-g-ward-dead-once-mist-here-uuuuuu-i-former-presiding-judge-of.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=25 August 1933}} in 1891.{{cite news |title=MARRIED AMID FLOWERS.; BEAUTIFUL DECORATIONS AT THE WARD-MARQUAND WEDDING. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1891/08/14/archives/married-amid-flowers-beautiful-decorations-at-the-wardmarquand.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=14 August 1891}}
• Elizabeth Love Marquand (1862–1951),{{cite news |title=MRS. HAROLD GODWIN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/31/archives/obituary-5-no-title.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1951}} who married Harold Godwin, a son of journalist Parke Godwin; she founded the Roslyn District Nursing Association.

He was a member of the Century Association, the Metropolitan Club, the Grolier Club and Princeton Club.

His wife Elizabeth died of pneumonia at their home in Manhattan on February 3, 1895.{{cite news |title=OBITUARY RECORD. Elizabeth Love Marquand |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1895/02/04/archives/obituary-record.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=4 February 1895}} Marquand died on February 26, 1902, in New York City at the age of 82.{{cite news |title=HENRY G. MARQUAND DEAD; His Career as a Business Man and a Patron of Art--Funeral to Take Place To-morrow. President of the Metropolitan Museum Passes Away at His Home. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/02/27/archives/henry-g-mirqdahd-bead-his-career-as-a-business-man-and-a-patron-of.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=27 February 1902}}{{cite news |title=HENRY G. MARQUAND. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/02/27/archives/henry-g-marquand.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=27 February 1902}} His varied, and valuable art collection and rare books were sold in 1903. He was a significant financial benefactor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University, and other institutions. His son, Allan Marquand (b. 1853), graduated from Princeton in 1874, and in 1883 became professor of archaeology and art.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Marquand, Henry Gurdon|volume=17|page=750}}

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In the early 1870s, Marquand hired Richard Morris Hunt to design and build a home for him in Newport, Rhode Island, which became known as Linden Gate, on the corner of Rhode Island Avenue and Old Beach Road.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=FINDS NECKLACE IN ROAD.; Coachman Recovers Mrs. Terry's Lost Diamonds Near Her Newport Villa. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/09/19/archives/finds-necklace-in-road-coachman-recovers-mrs-terrys-lost-diamonds.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=19 September 1910}} The elaborate stone, brick and wooden house that featured five red brick fireplaces was built by C.H. Burdick for Marquand between 1872 and 1873 and is representative of Hunt's earlier work.{{cite web |title=Linden Gate, Old Beach Road, Newport, Newport County, RI |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/ri0061/ |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |access-date=21 July 2022}} He had bought the property, a parcel that was originally a part of the 'Perry Farm", from Mary Gibbs, widow of George Gibbs for $32,165 in July 1871. Another parcel was bought for $22,000 in June 1876 and a third parcel for $34,000 in April 1881. In 1883, Marquand had Hunt remodel the original interiors together with enlarging the dining room and adding the service wing. He also built a brick lodge at the northeast corner of the estate. In 1913, the music room was added to the east and another entrance was added to the south.{{cite web |title=Linden Gate (Henry G. Marquand House) |url=https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/ri/ri0000/ri0061/data/ri0061data.pdf |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress |access-date=21 July 2022}}

After his death, the estate was purchased by the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, husband of his eldest daughter Linda, for $100,000 in December 1914. They were noted for their entertaining in Newport.{{cite news |title=LADY S. WAVERTREE GUEST OF HONOR; Luncheon Given for Newport Visitor by Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont. RODERICK TERRYS HOSTS Entertainment at Linden Gate in Celebration of Their Wedding Anniversary. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/09/23/archives/lady-s-wavertree-guest-of-honor-luncheon-given-for-newport-visitor.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 September 1928}}{{cite news |title=NEWPORT SEASON WELL UNDER WAY; Many Homes In the Resort's Summer Colony Have Been Opened. FRAZIER JELKES ENTERTAIN Due and Duchesse de Broglie Among Their Guests--Dr. and Mrs. Roderick Terry Hosts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/09/archives/newport-season-well-under-way-many-homes-in-the-resorts-summer.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=9 June 1929}}{{cite news |title=COUNT A.P. VILLA HOST AT NEWPORT; Others Entertaining Over WeekEnd Are A.S. Roches, J.C.Waterburys and K.P. Budds. RENEWS GOLF COMPETITION The Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry to GivePrizes for Season Scores for Men and Women Players at Links. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/07/01/archives/count-ap-villa-host-at-newport-others-entertaining-over-weekend-are.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=1 July 1929}} Both Linda and Roderick died at Linden Gate, and the house was inherited by their son and Marquand's grandson, lawyer Roderick,{{cite news |title=SEVERAL PARTIES GIVEN IN NEWPORT; Roderick Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. Lorillard Spencer Hosts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/08/03/archives/several-parties-given-in-newport-roderick-terry-mr-and-mrs-hermann.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=3 August 1937}} who owned the home until his death in 1951.{{cite news |title=RODERICK TERRY JR. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/06/08/archives/obituary-2-no-title.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=8 June 1951}} It was later divided into an apartment house before being destroyed by a fire in 1973.{{cite web |title=History Bytes: John Singer Sargent in Newport |url=https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-john-singer-sargent-in-newport/ |website=newporthistory.org |publisher=Newport Historical Society |access-date=21 July 2022 |date=8 June 2011}}

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Marquand again hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to design his home, and two smaller homes, on the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 68th Street in New York City. His residence occupying a large plot {{frac|42|1|2}} feet on the Avenue and 120 feet on the Street, faced 68th Street with the two smaller houses opening on to Madison Avenue with the three residences blending into a unified whole with balconies, gables, and multi-level mansard roofs. The large red brick with limestone trim home was designed in the "French transitional" style, melding elements of Renaissance and Gothic Revival, took three years to build and was completed in 1884 to accommodate his extensive art collection. The mansion was decorated in the Victorian fashion and was heavily influenced by Aestheticism. Marquand hired Sir Frederick Leighton (president of the Royal Academy), Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, Ellin & Kitson, Sir Edward Poynter, and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema to design the lush themed rooms and furniture.{{cite news |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher |title=The Once and Future Marquand |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/realestate/luxury-condos-where-a-mansion-stood.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 September 2013}} He filled the hallways and galleries of the home his renowned collection of antiquities and artworks, including works by the old masters including Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer.

After being vacant for five years, 816 Madison Avenue, one of the adjacent homes was rented by Marquand to former President Grover Cleveland. It was later the home of his youngest daughter Elisabeth and her husband Harold Godwin. The other adjoining house, 814 Madison Avenue, was occupied by Marquand's daughter, Mabel Marquand Ward. After his death, the house sat vacant for seven years before it was sold for $500,000 to a syndicate led by former New York State Senator George B. Agnew and torn down in April 1912.{{cite news |title=MARQUAND HOME SOLD; Old Mansion Will Be Replaced by an Eleven-Story Apartment House. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/03/23/archives/marquand-home-sold-old-mansion-will-be-replaced-by-an-elevenstory.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 March 1912}} In May 1912, a syndicate led by architect Herbert Lucas acquired 814 and 816 Madison Avenue from Marquand's daughters, which were also torn down.{{cite news |title=THE REAL ESTATE FIELD; Property Adjoining Marquand House on Madison Avenue Acquired by Apartment Syndicate -- Residence Deals in Fifth Avenue Section $100,000 West Bronx Sale -- Suburban Market. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/05/22/archives/the-real-estate-field-property-adjoining-marquand-house-on-madison.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 May 1912}} All three were replaced by one large 12-story apartment building at 11 East 68th Street, today owned by HFZ Capital Group and known as The Marquand, home to many prominent people, including William H. Force, sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman, and Elie Hirschfeld.{{Cite web|url=https://therealdeal.com/2016/09/28/hirschfeld-pays-38m-for-marquand-penthouse/|title=Hirschfeld Properties | 11 East 68th Street | The Marquand|date=September 28, 2016|website=The Real Deal New York|access-date=December 10, 2021}}

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• Kisluk-Grosheide, Danielle O. "The Marquand Mansion." Metropolitan Museum Journal 29 (1994): 151–181.
• Saltzman, Cynthia. Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I. New York: Viking, 2008. {{ISBN|0-143-11531-6}}.

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• [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Henry%20Gurdon%20Marquand%20Papers/field/relatig/mode/exact/conn/and/order/title Digital Collection of the Henry Gurdon Marquand papers] from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
• [https://archive.today/20130415124935/http://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15324coll3/id/628 Henry Gurdon Marquand Papers finding aid] from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
• [http://gildedage3.omeka.net/exhibits/show/collectors/sumptuoussales/marquandcollector/ Gilding the Gilded Age: Interior Decoration Tastes & Trends in New York City] A collaboration between The Frick Collection and The William Randolph Hearst Archive at LIU Post.
• [http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437881 Young Woman with a Water Pitcher] at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (89.15.21).
• [http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/12108 Henry G. Marquand], portrait by John Singer Sargent. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (97.43).

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