Artist/Maker
George Peter Alexander Healy
(American, 1813 – 1894)
Depicted
Emma Cecilia Thursby
(American, 1845 – 1931)
Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845–1931)
1879
Oil on canvas
Framed: 93 × 64 × 5 1/2 in. (236.2 × 162.6 × 14 cm)
Unframed: 68 × 43 in. (172.7 × 109.2 cm)
Unframed: 68 × 43 in. (172.7 × 109.2 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby
1944.17
Emma Thursby, a native of Brooklyn, was one of the first American singers to achieve renown in Europe. A soprano, she studied voice in New York with Julius Meyer and sang regularly as a soloist with the choir of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. After further study in Italy, she had her debut as a concert artist in New York in 1875. She toured widely from the late 1870s into the early years of the twentieth century.
SignedSigned and dated upper left: "G. P. A. Healy, Pinxit / Paris, May 1879"
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
George Peter Alexander Healy
1858
1972.10
