Joseph Longworth
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Joseph Longworth was an American lawyer, real-estate magnate, art collector, and philanthropist. A member of the wealthy Longworth family, he helped shape cultural life in Cincinnati for a generation.
Posthumous portrait of Longworth by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, 1884
Henry L. and William H. Fry (1850s), Mantel for the Rookwood estate. Cincinnati Art Museum
Benjamin West (1792) Laertes and Ophelia. Cincinnati Art Museum
Maria Longworth Storer
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Maria Longworth Nichols Storer was the founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, a patron of fine art and the granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longwor
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…and Anna Maria Towles (1795-1843). The couple had three children: the judge and art patron Nicholas Longworth II, the founder of Rookwood Pottery Maria Longworth Storer, and the surgeon Landon Rives Longworth. Until 1848 the family lived in the family estate "Belmont", which is now the Taft Museum of Art, until moving…
Maria Longworth Nichols Storer
Plate, painted and glazed earthenware, ca. 1880
Aladdin Vase, earthenware, 1880–83
Vase, copper and silver electroplated on tin and semiprecious stones, 1898