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Erisava Staff 4d ago

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918) by Anders Zorn, 1900

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918)

Public domain

Apparently the woman sitting here spent decades collecting musical instruments from all over, and thousands of them ended up going to a museum. He was doing a brisk trade in American portraits around this time, presidents included, so from what I can tell this was a commission like any other.

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