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  • Subject/Title:Ellen French Vanderbilt
  • Artist:Ellen Emmet Rand
  • Date Created:1915
  • Owner/Location:Vanderbilt University
  • Image Dimensions:60" x 38 1/2"
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Three quarter length portrait of Ellen Tuck French (Mrs. Alfred Gwynne) Vanderbilt wearing a white satin full-length gown with a red, fur-collared opera cape over her right shoulder.
  • History:Portrait bequeathed to the University by her son, William Henry Vanderbilt III.
  • Notes:First wife of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of Vanderbilt University.