Artist/Maker
Weart Banta
(American, 1862 – 1925)
Depicted
Phebe Hand Vanderbilt
(American, 1767 – 1854)
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1767-1854)
ca. 1850
Oil on canvas
Overall: 36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Gift of Mrs. A. D. Ayrault
1953.324
Phebe Hand married Cornelius Van der Bilt (later spelled Vanderbilt) (1764-1832) and lived on a farm near Port Richmond, Staten Island. Her fourth child, the second son, was Commodore Vanderbilt who founded the Vanderbilt fortune in the mid-19th century.
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