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Unidentified artist
Depicted
Maria Cooper Pillow
(English, 1762 – 1834)
Mrs. Edward Pillow (Maria Cooper, 1762–1834)
ca. 1790
Oil on canvas
Overall: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. ( 31.4 x 24.8 cm )
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
1935.156
Maria Cooper was the sister of the mayor of Canterbury, England. She married Edward Pillow in 1784. Frances Pillow, the daughter of Edward and Maria, married Henry Pilcher in Canterbury in 1822, and they were the parents of Eliza, who became Mrs. John Vaché Cox in 1844. The donor was the subject's great-granddaughter.
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