Portrait by famous artist of not famous subject who has ancestry in WikiTree?

Question

When I visit art museums I see portraits by noted artists of people who were not famous (as far as I know).  I try to look them up in WikiTree with the hope that I can add their portrait to their profile, but I have not yet been luckily enough to find any of them.

Can you point out any examples where WikiTree has matched up 200+ year old portraits of non-famous people who have good ancestry (or descendants to the present)?

Answer 1

My Morgan Family Tree is on Ancestry.Fortunate to find 3 Original paintings of my 10 11 12 Great Grandmothers in British Museum Art.Also

had children.They looked odd.People would marry 1st cousins back then.So children born with problems.

Too keep wealth in the family.

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Please provide links to their profiles.  Thanks.

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean by famous. Fame is often fleeting.

Ruth "Kitty" Owen Spence is on Wikitree as Leavitt-803, the daughter of Bryan-711. She obviously had some fame, but is mostly known for modeling in one of best known paintings of the twentieth century. She was married at one time to banker Robert Lehman.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/03/obituaries/kitty-spence-79-dies-was-model-for-parrish.html

I gather that her LNAB was Leavitt, but she used Owen, the surname of her stepfather. I assume Owen was her legal name, but her profile gives little information.

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Can you add a head shot of her to her profile?  Thanks.

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Her profile is locked and apparently managed by her great-granddaughter. She is the reclining figure in the painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(painting)

Answer 3

He's not wildly famous, but I know there are several profiles that are illustrated with portraits by notable Colonial American artist Nehemiah Partridge. Here are the ones I found just now:

• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ten_Broeck-122
• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Alen-4
• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Alstyne-16

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Thank you very much.