Prentiss, Elisabeth Severance Allen, 1865-1944

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role

Collector

dates

1865-1944

city

Cleveland

state

OH

other cities

Titusville, 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.

decades
of activity

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...