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Colt, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis (American collector, philanthropist, and art patron, 1826-1905)
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Note: Collector, philanthropist, institution builder, and art patron. Colt was the widow of arms manufacturer Samuel Colt .With the help of the artist Frederic Church, she began to collect paintings and sculpture and to commission landscape works by other well-known New York artists, including Thomas Cole, John Kensett, James Hamilton, William Beard, and William Bradford, as well as Charles Loring Elliott, who painted portraits of Samuel Colt and Elizabeth. In 1905, Elizabeth Colt bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum a collection of nearly 1,000 objects, artworks, and documents and a fund to build the Colt Memorial, the first American museum wing bearing the name of a woman patron. |
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(American collector, philanthropist, and art patron, 1826-1905) ..... [PROV Preferred]
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