Benjamin Curtis Porter
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Benjamin Curtis Porter was an American artist.
Portrait of Maud Howe, 1870s
Portrait of Alva (née Smith) Vanderbilt Belmont, c. 1876
Portrait of Emily Thorn (née Vanderbilt) Sloane, 1888
Portrait of Maria Louisa (née Kissam) Vanderbilt
Ward McAllister
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Samuel Ward McAllister was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of America, widely accepted as the authority to which families could be classified as the cream of New York society. His
McAllister, c. 1890
"Snobbish Society's Schoolmaster". Caricature of Ward McAllister as an ass telling Uncle Sam he must imitate "an English snob of the 19th century" or he "will nevah be a gentleman". Published in Judge, November 8, 1890.
Pierre-Eugène Marc (1819-1885), "If the hunt is fiction, lunch is a reality", 1860, Ward McAllister with the Pau Hunt in 1858.