Elizabeth Blackwell Morgan

Periodca. 1835

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions35.25 × 28.25 in. (89.5 × 71.8 cm)

ClassificationsPortraits

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Theodore Blackwell Morgan, 1938

Object number1114

DescriptionThree-quarter length portrait of a young woman facing right, with dark brown hair worn on top of her head, dark eyes, and a soft round face. She wears a black dress with puffed long sleeves, and a white lace fichu over her shoulders. Her left hand rests on the arm of a wooden chair upholstered in green fabric, with her right hand in her lap. Red drapery forms the background behind the sitter. A landscape view appears on the right edge of the painting, as if looking out a window. Additional red fabric is depicted in the lower right corner.

Curatorial RemarksIn need of conservation.NotesElizabeth Blackwell (1813 - 1885) was born in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, a daughter of Jacob Blackwell and his wife Elizabeth. She married on 11 June 1832 to Charles Morgan (1808 - 1852) in Trenton, Mercer County. They became the parents of five children. The Morgans lived about one mile from the village of South Amboy. After construction of the New York & Long Branch Railroad in 1873, the train station near their residence was named Morgan. The 24-room house they occupied burned in 1874. After the death of her husband in 1852, Elizabeth Blackwell Morgan remarried on 10 November 1857 to Columbus C. Rockwell, a lawyer and judge in Iowa and New York City. They had no children.

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ProvenanceElizabeth Blackwell Morgan (1813 - 1885), to her son Theodore B. Morgan (1843 - 1888), to his son Theodore B. Morgan (1881 - 1937), to his widow Harriet Wheeler Morgan (1884 - 1946).