George Peter Alexander Healy

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George Peter Alexander Healy was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day, and his sitters included many of the eminent personages of his time. Born in Boston, he studied in Europe, and over his lifetime had studios in Paris and Chicago.

A photograph of Healy by Southworth & Hawes

George Peter Alexander Healy in his Paris studio, c. 1884–1894, albumen print by Edmond Bénard, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

Healy's grave at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois

Portrait of the Artist (1851)

Thomas Barbour Bryan

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Thomas Barbour Bryan was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician.

Bryan in the 1860s

Mrs. Thomas B. Bryan, an 1856 George Peter Alexander Healy painting of Bryan's wife Jennie, which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bryan with son Charles and daughter Jennie, circa 1865

Postcard of Bryan's residence at the Byrd's Nest estate in Elmhurst, Illinois