Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Artist |
Ortiz, A. |
Date |
1869 |
Title |
[Portrait of Mary Ann (Pelton) Duffie] |
Description |
Oil painting on canvas. 3/4-length portrait of Mary Ann (Pelton) Duffie. Not signed. Gilt frame. Previous catalog records identify the artist and date as A. Ortiz, 1869. |
Acquisition |
Gift of Adele Duffie |
Ownership and History |
Mary Ann Pelton was born December 3, 1828, the daughter of Catherine Cortelyou (Van Arsdale) and Daniel Pelton. The family moved from Manhattan to Staten Island in the late 1830s or early 1840s. Mary Ann was 31 years old in 1860 when she married Alfred N. Duffie, a French soldier who came to the U.S. and became a brigadier general in the Civil War. After the war, the Duffies lived in Cadiz, Spain, where Alfred was U.S. Consul. They had a son Daniel, born in 1862, and another named August who died at the age of one month. After her husband's death in 1880, Mary Ann returned to her family's home on Staten Island to live with her sisters. She died on December 2, 1910, the day before her 82nd birthday. This portrait was donated to the Staten Island Historical Society in 1962 by Mary Ann and Alfred's granddaughter, Adele Duffie. |
Earliest Date |
1869 |
Latest Date |
1869 |
Subjects |
Portrait paintings |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Art |
Associated People |
Duffie, Mary Ann (Pelton) |
Catalog Number |
P01.0166 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Barker Welfare Foundation, January 2019. |
Legal Status |
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