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Artist/Maker
Depicted (1865 – 1946)

Mrs. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (Laura Wallace Buchanan, ca. 1870–1946)

ca. 1890–1895
Oil on canvas
Overall: 52 1/4 × 37 1/4 in. (132.7 × 94.6 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Colonel J. Mayhew Wainwright through Mrs. Philip K. Condict
1946.195
Laura Wallace Buchanan was the daughter of James Armistead Buchanan, a lawyer of Baltimore, and Rosa (Parran) Buchanan. She became the wife of J. Mayhew Wainwright, a lawyer of New York, on November 23, 1892. Her husband, who attained the rank of colonel in the New York National Guard, served as assistant secretary of war under President Warren G. Harding.
SignedSigned at upper left: "Marie Constantin"
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