I thought this gallery should include a photo of William Kissam Vanderbilt II.
It disturbed me seeing this painting of him after a hunt in Africa.
However this is how the man lived.
I personally think animals should be hunted with a camera rather than a gun but I didn’t live in those times.
Willie owned a hunting lodge and preserve in Canada, a farm in Tennessee, a place at Fisher’s Island in Florida
(complete with seaplane hangar, docking facilities,
an eleven-hole golf course with each hole named after one of his yachts, tennis courts, and swimming pool),
and the summer estate at Centerport, Eagle’s Nest.
William died in early 1944 of a heart ailment.
His estate, along with a $2,000,000 fund for its perpetuation, was left to Suffolk County, Long Island.