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Prentiss, Elisabeth Severance Allen, 1865-1944

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dates 1865-1944
city Cleveland
stateOH
other citiesTitusville, PA; Wellesley, MA; Pasadena, CA;
sex F
historical notes Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss was a philanthropist, collector and Severance heir (banking, oil, salt, sulphur and steel). Elisabeth was married twice; first in 1892, to Dudley Peter Allen (1852–1915) and in 1917, to Francis Fleury Prentiss (1858–1937).

Both husbands were surgeons and connoisseurs of the fine arts. Allen was an expert in Chinese porcelain and one of the first trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

She and her husbands formed an art collection of which the bulk was later left to the Cleveland Museum of Art and included paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and most notably tapestries.

Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss created The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation in January of 1939.
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1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
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Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ingalls Library and Archives
Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 see details...
Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) see details...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Please see individual record for location
Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964 see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Duveen Brothers records, 1910-1933. see details...
Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University
Special Collections
Photograph albums of Glenallen see details...
Western Reserve Historical Society
Library
Severance family papers, series II, 1826-1989. see details...
Western Reserve Historical Society
Library
Severance family photographs, 1846-1950 [graphic]. see details...
Western Reserve Historical Society
Library
Saint Luke's Foundation records, 1904-1997. see details...
Western Reserve Historical Society
Library
Margaret Bourke-White photographs, ca. 1928 [graphic]. see details...
Western Reserve Historical Society
Library
Saint Luke's hospital photographs, 1894-1997 [graphic]. see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
French & Company records, 1911-1998 (bulk 1950-1969) see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
French & Company photographs, 1915-1998 (bulk 1950-1969) see details...

see also:
Prentiss, Francis Fleury, 1858-1937
Severance, John L. (John Long), 1863-1936
Allen, Dudley Peter, 1852-1915