Noted philanthropist Paul Mellon bequeathed more than $450 million and hundreds of works of art to several of his favorite groups, including a record $75 million in cash and more than 100 paintings to the National Gallery of Art, the Washington Post reports.

Mellon died Feb. 1 at the age of 91. His will was filed Feb. 10 in Virginia, where he resided.

The National Gallery was founded by his father, industrialist Andrew W. Mellon.

The museum eventually will receive more than 100 paintings from Mellon's vast private collection by American and French masters including Paul Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix, Winslow Homer, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh.

Mellon had donated more than 900 works to the museum during his lifetime. The bequested artwork will stay with his widow, Rachel Lambert Mellon, until her death, the Post reports.

Mellon's largest bequests:

• $75 million and more than 130 pieces of art to Yale University's Center for British Art, which he established.
• $10 million and more than 50 paintings to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
• $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
• $10 million to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn., his prep school.
• $8 million to Cambridge University.
• $5 million to St. John's College in Annapolis, Md.
• $5 million to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
• $5 million to Clare College at Cambridge.
• $5 million to London's Royal Academy of Arts.
• $5 million to the Virginia Historical Society.
• $5 million to the Yale Art Gallery.
• $5 million to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
• $5 million to the Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.
• $2.5 million to the British Racing School's Apprentice School Charitable Trust.
• $1.5 million to the U.S. Cavalry Museum in Fort Riley, Kan.

Mellon bequeathed smaller amounts to a number of other groups.

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