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Sargent visited Vizcaya in March 1917 and produced a series of watercolors of the estate, as well as portrait of James. After the extensive gardens were completed in 1923, Deering's health began to weaken. Nonetheless, he traveled and entertained guests, including the silent film stars Lillian Gish and Marion Davies.
- industrialist, art collector
- September 21, 1925 (aged 65), aboard SS Paris
- November 12, 1859, South Paris, Maine
- building Villa Vizcaya
James Deering, the patron of Vizcaya. James Deering (1859–1925) was a retired millionaire and a bachelor in his early fifties when he undertook the challenge to build an elaborate estate in South Florida. He was afflicted with pernicious anemia, a condition for which doctors recommended sunshine and a warm climate: Vizcaya became the place ...
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Reflecting his interests in agriculture and technology, Vizcaya built a farming village on the estate and, while creating what appeared to be a centuries-old Italianate estate, incorporated the most advanced technology of the day. As a bachelor without direct descendants, Deering’s nieces inherited Vizcaya.
What Motivated James Deering’s Rush to Occupy Vizcaya? James Deering was born into business and realized that time is money. But he also had a health condition called pernicious anemia, which was considered fatal at the time.
Deering used Vizcaya as his winter residence from 1916 until his death in 1925. During World War I, building trades and supplies were difficult to acquire in Florida. Vizcaya is noteworthy for adapting historical European aesthetic traditions to South Florida's subtropical ecoregion.
- 43 acres (17 ha)
- 1914–23
Dec 7, 2015 · Known today as Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the 40 room mansion surrounded by acres of meticulously landscaped gardens was originally the home of industrialist James Deering. As early as the...
Built as a winter residence for James Deering, an executive of the International Harvester company and one of the wealthiest men in the country in the early 1900s, Vizcaya was the site of lavish parties between its completion in 1916 and Deering's death in 1925.
