Anna Dorinda Bliss
Title: Mrs Demas Barnes, Mrs William H. Bliss
Birthname: Anna Dorinda Blaksley
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 11 June 1851
Place of birth: St Louis Missouri
Date of death: 1935
Place of death: Casa Dorinda, Montecito, California
Category: collector
Birthname: Anna Dorinda Blaksley
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 11 June 1851
Place of birth: St Louis Missouri
Date of death: 1935
Place of death: Casa Dorinda, Montecito, California
Category: collector
Identity:
She married Demas Barnes in Saint Louis in 1878, and they moved to New York. They had one child, Mildred Barnes-Bliss, born on 9 September 1879. After the death of Demas Barnes in 1888, she married William Henry Bliss on 14 April 1894.
Life:
She was a wealthy philanthropist and collector. She owned Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon,Venice y212.
Bibliography:
'Anna Barnes Bliss (1851–1935)', Dunbarton Oaks website.
