Live Auction 2279The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs
Christie’s roundel
Lot 543

THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Jennie Dean Kershaw (Mrs. Samuel Murray), c. 1897

Closed8 October 2009

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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.)

From the Collection of Mrs. Thomas Eakins;
to Seymour Edelman; acquired c. 1980

Specialist note

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.