| Colt, Elizabeth H. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1826-1905 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | Hartford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | CT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt (1826 - 1905), was a collector, philanthropist, institution builder, and art patron. Colt was the widow of arms manufacturer Samuel Colt and daughter of Rev. William Jarvis of Middletown, CT. 1865 Elizabeth Colt began work on a formal art gallery to be established on the second floor of Armswear, the elaborate Italianate villa the couple had built on Wethersfield Avenue, south of the Atheneum. With the help of the artist Frederic Church, she began to collect paintings and sculpture and to commission landscape works by other well-known New York artists, including Thomas Cole, John Kensett, James Hamilton, William Beard, and William Bradford, as well as Charles Loring Elliott, who painted monumental portraits of Samuel Colt and of Elizabeth with her only surviving child, her son Caldwell. In 1905, Elizabeth Colt bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum a collection of nearly 1,000 objects, artworks, and documents and a fund to build the Colt Memorial, the first American museum wing bearing the name of a woman patron. |
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| decades | 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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