There can be only one............................

 Additional info: 20th April 2011.
P.A. to Professor Stephen Deuchar  http://www.artfund.org/news/867/stephen-deuchar-appointed-director-of-the-art-fund  assures me of forthcoming contact.
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............. And it's me.

Strange but true. Trumpet blowing? In a way, yes.
Hugely cut and abreviated story follows:

Facts: (Verifiable)

Once upon a time, a boy was born and brought up in a quiet Midlands Market Town. Throughout his youth he was aware that his name was very unusual - so unusual, in fact, that he knew of no-one else outside his immediate family with the name.

As he grew older, he became deeply interested in art in all its forms, particularly music and photography. He studied photography as art in senior school and became an accomplished drummer, often musing as to where his artistic inclinations had come from and occasionally reflecting on the origins of his unusual name.
A search reveals a scholarship fund set up in Eugene Cremetti's name at Harrow School. Pages emerged which talked of Eugene Cremetti's partnership with Count Maximilian Hollender http://www.cleugh.com/eng/lb/hollender.html in an Art dealership in Bond Street in the early 1900s. Mention was made of his habit of giving all his sons the middle name Eugene, and of Paul Eugene following him into the Art business. Numerous sites detailed art works by such greats as Turner, Holbein and Cuyp having been purchased for posterity by the National Art Collections Fund (Eugene Cremetti Fund) for museums and galleries, including the Tate and throughout the UK. Artfund
 Laurence's talent for the arts is there in his ancestry and his unusual surname is more unusual than he ever guessed. How did Laurence's branch of the family become separated from those who remain in Europe and America? Why are all attempts at contact rejected?
Laurence Cremetti is the last living male member of this highly influential family, and with no knowledge of his heritage, unconsciously, through the genetic gift for artistic vision passed down from his forebears, he continues to involve the Cremetti name in the art world of the UK.
Meanwhile, Laurence's research goes on. He is currently in communication with both the Tate Galleryhttp://www.tate.org.uk/  and The Art Fund about his family's contribution to the arts and as the mists surrounding this story clear he will be relating the whole story.

here are just a few of the art works purchased with the assistance of the Eugene Cremetti Fund:
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      "Woman Ironing" oil on canvas by Edgar Degas - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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      "Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North" watercolour by JMW Turner - Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
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      "Rustic Music (Portrait of John Hanson Walker)" oil on canvas by Lord Frederic Leighton - Leighton House Museum, London
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      "Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians" oil on canvas by George Stubbs - Manchester Art Gallery
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      "St Peter's from the Villa Borghese, Rome" watercolour by John Robert Cozens - Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
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      "Christ Taking Leave of His Mother" oil on wood by Albrecht Altdorfer - National Gallery, London.
Hugely cut and abreviated.
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