Artist/Maker
Katherine Arthur Behenna
(Scottish, ca. 1860 - 1924)
Depicted
Sarah Pendleton Van Rensselaer
(American, 1846 – 1923)
Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer (1846-1923)
1895
Watercolor on ivory
Framed: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
1905.254
Sally Pendleton was the daughter of Elisha Boyd and Lucinda (Tutt) Pendleton of Berkeley County, Va. On April 26, 1865, she was married to Eugene Van Rensselaer (1840-1925) in Baltimore. He was the youngest of eleven children of Stephen Van Rensselaer, tenth patroon and eighth lord of the manor.
Markingssigned: "Behenna"
ClassificationsMINIATURES
Collections
- Peter Marié's "Beauties of New York Society"