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Eleanor Saltonstall

Eleanor Saltonstall Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas by Frank Weston Benson, circa 1920

117.7 x 91.4 cm; in frame 131.5 x 111 x 5.5 cm.

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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall volunteered with several organizations in France during World War I, earning the Croix de Guerre for service under fire. She died in 1919, at age 24, of typhoid fever contracted during a trip with friends to the west coast. This portrait of Nora by Frank W. Benson was commissioned soon after her unexpected death.