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Painting
Anne Mumford Palmer
Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1849 - 1921
Thayer, Abbott Handerson
United States
1849 - 1921
Male
24 x 19 1/2 in. (61 x 49.5 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1879
1879
1879
1800-1900, 19th century, figure, flowers in art, paintings, portraits, women
Painting
A vision of fresh beauty in her portrait, Anne Mumford Palmer lived a life that was hardly placid. Born to a Rochester lawyer and his wife, Palmer moved to New York City after her father became the treasurer of Western Union. She was a good friend of the distinguished American writer Henry Adams and his wife, Clover.
An adventurous marriage to Englishman E. Nelson Fell included draining swamps in Florida to build a British colony called Fellsmere. Four years were spent with their three children on the Siberian steppes where Nelson Fell supervised a mining operation.
When Anne Mumford Palmer, age 22, was painted by Abbott Thayer, newly returned from studying in France, her life lay ahead of her like a limitless ocean. When she sold the painting to MAG founder Emily Sibley Watson in 1930, she was nearing the end of her remarkable journey, and would die seven years later. More remains to be learned about an interesting life.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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