| Rice, Eleanore Elkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1862-1937 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Philadelphia, PA; Poughkeepsie, NY; Newport, RI; Paris, France; Palm Beach, FL; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Eleanore Elkins Widener Rice was an art collector, socialite and philanthropist. Her art collection included, among other items, 18th century French furniture, Sèvres porcelain, Louis XVI furniture, terracotta figures by Clodion and Beauvais, eighteenth-century English silver, and tapestries by François Boucher and others. Rice left the Louis XVI drawing room and contents in her Fifth Avenue home (901 Fifth Avenue) to the Pennsylvania Museum of Art At Philadelphia. A survivor of the RMS Titanic, Eleanor Rice was married twice; her first husband George Dunton Widener (1861 - 1912) and son Harry Elkins Widener (1885 -1912) were victims of the RMS Titanic; her second husband was the surgeon and Amazon explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice (1875 - 1956). She was the daughter of William Lukens Elkins (1832 – 1903). In memory of her son, Rice gave Harvard University $2,000,000 for the Widener Memorial; she built the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Science building at the Hill School, Pottstown (1931), and rebuilt St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Elkins Park. |
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| decades | 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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