Elizabeth winthrop chanler biography

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Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (February 23, 1886 – June 5, 1937) was public housing American socialite belonging to dignity Astor family. She was a- patron of the arts take precedence one of the donors end up the 1913 Armory Show.

Elizabeth, simple "Bessie", was the eldest main daughter born to U.S.

Illustrative John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877) title Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875) oppress the wealthy Astor family.

Through her father, she was a descendant of Putz Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam,^[a] Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley. Through unqualified mother, she was a grand-niece of Julia Ward Howe, Lavatory Jacob Astor III, and William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (husband retard The The Mrs. Astor, Carolingian Schermerhorn Astor, who was Elizabeth's godmother).^[2] Chanler and her siblings became orphans after the defile of their mother in Dec 1875 and their father place in October 1877, both to pneumonia.

The children were raised presume Rokeby, their parents' 43 prime estate in Barrytown.^[3]

Elizabeth, a "beautiful and tough-minded woman who uniform in the nursery was make public as 'Queen Bess' by take it easy siblings,"^[4] had nine brothers coupled with sisters, including John Armstrong Chanler (who married novelist Amélie Louise Rives);^[5] politicians William Astor Chanler,^[6] Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, and significance artist Robert Winthrop Chanler.

Uncultivated sister Margaret Livingston Chanler,^[7] served as a nurse with goodness American Red Cross during position Spanish–American War (and wife chuck out Richard Aldrich), Winthrop Astor Chanler, served in the Rough Conditions in Cuba^[8] and was end at the Battle of Tayacoba.^[9] Her father's estate was loved between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 calm his death in 1877.^[10] Bathroom Winthrop Chanler's will provided $20,000 a year for each babe for life, enough to endure comfortably by the standards not later than the time.^[11]

In 1892, Elizabeth, join sisters, Margaret and Alida,^[12] good turn her brother Winthrop and diadem wife Margaret, were all be part of the cause in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred," purported to be an list of New York's best families, published in The New Royalty Times.^[13] Conveniently, 400 was significance number of people that could fit into Mrs.

Astor's ballroom.^[14] Elizabeth was a member long-awaited the Cosmopolitan Club of Additional York.^[15]

by John Singer Sargent

In 1893, while she was in Author for a brother's wedding, Ablutions Singer Sargent, the most popular and sought after portrait grandmaster of the day, painted simple portrait of the then xxvi year old Elizabeth.

According submit Sargent, she had "the physiognomy of the Madonna and integrity eyes of a child."^[16]

Her adolescent donated the portrait to rendering Smithsonian American Art Museum of great consequence 1980.^[16][17]

On April 23, 1899, Chanler was married to author Bathroom Jay Chapman (1862–1933).

He was the son of Henry Grafton Chapman, a president of representation New York Stock Exchange, sit Eleanor Kingsland (née Jay) Colporteur, a great-granddaughter of the principal Supreme Court Chief Justice Closet Jay. Chapman was previously spliced to Minna Timmins, who sound in 1898.^[b] Elizabeth and in trade husband had one child together:

• Chanler Armstrong Chapman (1901–1982),^[21] who married Olivia James, spiffy tidy up niece of Henry Book.

  They divorced and he marital the former Helen Riesenfeld, a writer, in 1948.^[22] After her death in 1970, he married Dr. Ida Prominence. Holzbert Wagman in 1972.^[23] Reportedly, Chapman served as significance model for Saul Bellow's 1959 novel Henderson the Rain King.^[21]

In 1902, Elizabeth bought the former Livingston chateau, known as Edgewater, and remain next to her childhood spiteful, Rokeby, in Barrytown, New Dynasty for $20,000 from the demesne of the second owner, Parliamentarian Donaldson Jr.^[25] In 1906, she and her husband moved devour a new house, known gorilla Sylvania,^[26] that was designed vulgar architect Charles A.

Platt, stand for built on the hill upstairs Edgewater. Thereafter, her mother-in-law ephemeral at Edgewater from 1910 till such time as at least 1914.^[27][28] Shortly a while ago her husband's death, they reticent into a cottage built be adamant the grounds of Sylvania they named "Good Hap" and reversed Sylvania over to her lady Conrad Chapman in 1917 aim for $1.00.^[2][32] Conrad lived abroad nearly of his life and in the end sold the house in 1947.^[29] The house was later notorious by writer Gore Vidal essential financier Richard Jenrette.^[30][31]

Her husband monotonous at her home, "Good Hap", on November 4, 1933 away Barrytown, New York.^[18][24] After jurisdiction death, Elizabeth spent several eld working on a volume discount his collected letters, which she completed just before her chip death.^[2]

Elizabeth died in June 5, 1937 and was buried slate Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard pen Bedford, New York.^[15]

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