Lot Essay
Jennie Dean Kershaw married Samuel Murray, favorite pupil and best friend of artist Thomas Eakins. Eakins' contemporary portrait in oil of her now hangs in the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jennie Dean Kershaw (Mrs. Samuel Murray), c. 1897
Details
THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)
Jennie Dean Kershaw (Mrs. Samuel Murray), c. 1897
platinum print
title in an unknown hand in pencil (on the verso)
3½ x 3½in. (8.8 x 8.8cm.)
Jennie Dean Kershaw (Mrs. Samuel Murray), c. 1897
platinum print
title in an unknown hand in pencil (on the verso)
3½ x 3½in. (8.8 x 8.8cm.)
Provenance
From the Collection of Mrs. Thomas Eakins;
to Seymour Edelman; acquired c. 1980
to Seymour Edelman; acquired c. 1980
Literature
Particulars, pl. 20, p. 11
Exhibited
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, Particulars, 1983
Brought to you by
Elizabeth Eichholz
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