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
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
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.
Maria Longworth Storer
…granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longworth (patriarch of the famous Longworth family). She was born Maria Longworth, daughter of Joseph H. Longworth, in Cincinnati, Ohio into perhaps the wealthiest Episcopalian family in the city of that time. Due to her comfortable upbringing, she was immersed in…
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