Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe

Details

Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe
signed 'Cecilia Beaux-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
63 x 43 in. (160 x 109.2 cm.)
Painted in 1903.

Provenance

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1955, p. 70 (as Mrs. A.P. Howe).
S. Yount, et al., Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter, Berkeley, California, 2007, p. 99.

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Lot Essay

The present sitter was the daughter of Andrew Mahaffey, a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Elizabeth McPherson. She married and had six children with Major General Albion Paris Howe, who served in the Civil War as well as the campaigns against the Seminole and Sioux tribes. After General Howe's retirement, the family settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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