Edward Bassin, who calmed Dr. Johnson when, heavy in drink, he claimed he'd thumb his nose at a certain Hedda Von Kutt, the dukes honored guest, wife of the Dutch ambassador. Bassin's second son, Phillip, an itinerant and dyspeptic young man, squandered his share of the family fortune investing in a railway scheme using a new steam engine, which proved too heavy in wet months for newly laid rails. Phillip Bassin left in shame for Italy, marrying an Italian of lower birth, name unknown, in Naples or Rome. It was in Rome, certainly, that he purchased several smaller works by Guiseppe Nerri, receipts for which remain among Nerri's papers.Ironically, after the success of alternating-current electricity and Westinghouse at the Chicago World's Fair, it would be Hedda Von Kutt's descendants who lost the family fortune to famed con-man Milton Atbush, who, claiming to be a board member of Westinghouse overseeing the installation of alternating currency electrical systems in Philadelphia, made off with 337,000 dollars of the Von Kutt's. The youngest Von Kutt, Matilde, paid passage on the steamliner D.S. Masterson, by means unknown, and there met Paul Edward Bassin the 2nd, not long after to be knighted for his bravery and leadership in the laying of the trans-atlantic cable, and was never parted from him long thereafter.Matilde would become Matilde Bassin, in 1899 in London. Paul Edward would make her a present of The Angel and Levi by Guiseppe Nerri.