Sale 6427
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
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Born in Boston in 1928, Helen (Gay) Scott, nee Elliot, was a pianist, piano teacher, mother of three and grandmother of seven. She studied piano at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, 1969-1973, while living in London where her husband was special assistant to Walter Annenberg, the American ambassador to the Court of St. James. Married for 42 years to Robert Montgomery Scott (1929-2005), President and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1982-1996, Helen served on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music, taught piano at the Settlement Music School, and privately into her nineties. She was an alumna of the Shady Hill School, the Foxcroft School and Radcliffe College.
The Rev. Morse: relined, replaced stretcher, craquelure, selectively cleaned, under UV the background with green varnish and scattered areas of retouch, darkened areas to canvas suggest earlier conservation work with retouch to jaw and proper right side of face. Two areas of whitish spots to clothing- mold? With slight stretcher marks
Mary Eddy Morse: with cradle support, Green under UV. shadows suggest retouch to mouth and extreme left side of face. unobtrusive craquelure.
Eliakim Morse: with cradle support;
horizontal extension of approx 3 inches to top of portrait, Under UV
suggests relatively minor retouch to face, and to areas of shirt. Unobtrusive craquelure.
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