Anthony Beadell is founder, president and senior portfolio manager at A. D. Beadell Investment Counsel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been adding value to client portfolios for over 50 years. Beadell is a graduate of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, where he majored in psychology. For many years he has served as a trustee of the Endowment Fund of the Milwaukee Public Museum.Being a prolific collector since childhood, he is focused today on three major themes: representational painting, Nordic antiques/folk art and 19th century glass paperweights and related objects. He is a major collector of glass portraits--those that were first introduced by the Romans, later reintroduced by the 19th century Italians, and today, fashioned by a number of talented studio glass artists. He has written articles and lectured on his collections.Beadell is an "after hours" artist, painting in a representational style. His works have been shown in several Midwest galleries. He has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Art Students League of New York. For decades this money manager, collector, painter and connoisseur of the arts has pounded the pavement of New York, Moscow, London and Paris in pursuit of truth in art, antiques and antiquities.