Live Auction 2822American Art
Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
Lot 118

Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe

Closed26 February 2014

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USD 40,000

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Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe
signed 'Cecilia Beaux-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
63 x 43 in. (160 x 109.2 cm.)
Painted in 1903.

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The present sitter was the daughter of Andrew Mahaffey, a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Elizabeth McPherson. She married and had six children with Major General Albion Paris Howe, who served in the Civil War as well as the campaigns against the Seminole and Sioux tribes. After General Howe's retirement, the family settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.