John Wheeler Leavitt
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John Wheeler Leavitt was a New York City businessman, founder of J. W. & R. Leavitt Company, eventually declared insolvent, and grandfather of American society portrait painter Cecilia Beaux, who freq
Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt Grandmother of Philadelphia artist Cecilia Beaux, knitting, 1885
American portrait artist Cecilia Beaux, ca. 1888. Raised by grandfather John Wheeler Leavitt and wife Cecilia (Kent) Leavitt
Henry Drinker
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Henry Sandwith Drinker was an American lawyer and amateur musicologist. In 1964, the American Bar Association gave Drinker the American Bar Association Medal, stating that Drinker's monumental work Le
John Wheeler Leavitt
…May 9, 1892. John Wheeler Leavitt and his wife had eight children, five of them girls. Leavitt was the great-grandfather of Haverford College Professor Henry S. Drinker. John Wheeler Leavitt's youngest daughter Emily Austin Leavitt had married William Foster Biddle, a Philadelphia civil and mining engineer who proved…
Portrait of Henry Sandwith Drinker (1901) by Cecilia Beaux
Les derniers jours d' enfance (1883) by Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Summer Portraits – Mr. & Mrs. Henry Sandwith Drinker (c.1911), by Cecilia Beaux, private collection