23 March 2017

Giovanni Boldini. Portrait of Elizabeth Wharton-Drexel, 1905 (Preservation Society of Newport/ UK).


Oil on canvas: 218.4 x 116.8 cm. Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (1868-1944) ancestor of the Drexel banking family, was a Manhattan socialite. Married John Vinton Dahlgren (1869-1899) in 1889. Married Henry "Harry" Symes Lehr (1869-1929) in 1901, who was in fact gay. Married John Beresford, the 5th Baron Decies (1866-1944) in 1936.

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