Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Elizabeth Shaw Wentworth

Title: Mrs Moses J. Wentworth
Birthname: Elizabeth Shaw Hunt
Alias: 'Lizzie'
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1862
Date of death: December 1935
Place of death: Cook County, Illinois
Category: collector

Identity:

A leading society hostess, Lizzie S. Hunt had married Moses Jones Wentworth (1848–1922), a lawyer and politician, in Chicago in 1891. They had two sons, John (1892–1958) and Hunt (1895–1929).

Life:

At some time after 1919 she bought Portrait of Dr William McNeill Whistler y123.

Bibliography:

US census, Chicago, 1910, Ancestry.com; Marcia l. Jones Family tree, Ancestry.com.