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Eva Scott Fényes
Eva Scott Fényes (1849-1930) was an American painter known for watercolor landscape of the American west. She was also known for her philanthropic activities. Biography Fényes was born on November 9, 1849, in New York City as the only child of Leonard and Rebecca Briggs Scott. She attended Pelham Priory School, the first girls’ preparatory school in the New York area, where she receives her first art training. In 1868/69 she travels through Southern Europe and Northern Africa with her parents, spending six weeks in Egypt, where she receives art training from Sanford R. Gifford. On November 19, 1878, she married Lieutenant William Sullivane Muse, US Marine Corps, Fort Monroe, Virginia, with whom she had one child, Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (1879-1972). In 1889 Eva and her daughter come to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to seek divorce. In 1895 she travels to Egypt again, where she meets her second husband, Hungarian nobleman Adalbert Fényes de Csokaly. They marry in Budapest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted for its emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects. Childhood and early career He was born in Greenfield, New York, the fourth of the eleven children of Quaker ironmaker Elihu Gifford and Eliza Robinson Starbuck.American Archives of Art, Smithsonian Institution. Biographical information. He spent his childhood in , and entered |
Leonora Scott Muse Curtin
Leonora Scott Curtin ( Muse; 1879-1972) was an American botanist and philanthropist. Biography Leonora Scott Muse was born in White Plains, New York, on October 2, 1879, as daughter of Eva Scott Muse (later Fényes) and William S. Muse. Her mother moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her in 1889, seeking divorce from her husband. They built a house on Hillside Avenue. Between 1891 and 1896, Leonora went to private schools in England, France, and Switzerland. In 1896 her mother marries her second husband, Hungarian entomologist Adalbert Fényes, and the family moves to Pasadena, California, where Leonora attends Miss Orton's Classical School. In 1900, Leonora met her future husband, Thomas Edward. Curtin, a lawyer from New York, and the couple marries in 1903. That same year, their daughter and only child Leonora Frances Curtin is born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After the death of her husband in 1911, she moved to Pasadena and later to Santa Fe. In 1914, she helped found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelbert Fenyes
Adalbert Fényes (17 November 1863 – 22 February 1937) was a Hungarian-born American physician who introduced the X-ray machine to Pasadena, California, Pasadena. In his spare time he was a keen collector of insect specimens and took an interest in gardening and breeding of new flower varieties. Fenyes was born in Arad County (former), Arad where his father Carolus was an attorney from a lineage of nobility. He was educated at the University of Vienna and trained in neurology before becoming an army physician in the court of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Joseph. He served in Helwan, Egypt in 1893, and married a New York millionaire artist Eva Scott Fényes, Eva Scott in 1896. He moved to the US and introduced the first X-ray machine in Pasadena and for his pioneering work in this field he was made an honorary member of the American Medical Society. In his spare time he took an interest in insects and began to make a large collection. He especially took an interest in the Rove b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
