Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt
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Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt was the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and reigned as the matriarch of the Vanderbilt family for over 60 years.
In costume as "The Electric Light" at a ball on March 26, 1883
Portrait of Alice Vanderbilt, c. 1895
With her daughter Gertrude in 1895
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II and her daughters, Gladys and Gertrude, having tea in the library at The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island (William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1932)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostes
Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt
…Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (1873–1942), who was disinherited for marrying Grace Graham Wilson against his parents' wishes. Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), who married Harry Payne Whitney. She was an artist who founded the Whitney Museum. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877–1915), a businessman who…
Photograph of Whitney taken c. 1909
Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio, c. 1920