Evans, Maria Antoinette

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role

Collector

dates

1845-1917

city

Boston

state

MA

other cities

Weymouth, MA; Beverly, MA;

sex

F

historical notes

Maria Antoinette Evans, nee Hunt, was a suffragist, philanthropist, art collector and supporter of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Together with her husband, Robert Dawson Evans, she formed an art collection and continued to add to it long after his death. Evans left the bulk of the collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and funded the construction of the Tapestry and Evans Galleries.

The Evans Collection included work by, among others, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Théodore Rousseau, Jean Jacques Henner, Anton Mauve, Theophile Emile Achille de Bock, Charles François Daubigny, Jean-François Millet, Eugène Fromentin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean Charles Cazin, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Jacob Jordaens, Abraham Vinck, Theophile Emile Achille de Bock, Sir Henry Raeburn, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Ferdinand Bol, and works of art attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani and Raphael.

Maria Evans left the bulk of the collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and funded the museum’s Evans Wing.

Among other causes, The Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital (Robert Dawson Evans Memorial for Clinical Research and Preventive Medicine) and the The New England Conservatory of Music (pipe organ installed in the South Congregational Church) also benefited from Mrs. Evans philanthropy.

decades
of activity

1860-1870
1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920

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