Frances Hunt Throop (1860–1933) was an American painter. She was known for her portraiture and still life painting.
Biography
Throop was born in 1860
in New York City.
She studied at the
Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is an art school at 215 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists.
Although artists may stu ...
.
She was a member of the Brooklyn Art Association and the
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Throop
exhibited her work at the
Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Family
Throop's grandfather was
George B. Throop
George Bliss Throop (April 12, 1793 in Johnstown (city), New York, Johnstown, then in Montgomery County, New York, Montgomery Co., now in Fulton County, New York – February 23, 1854 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan) was an American lawyer ...
, a New York state senator and later Michigan state representative; her great uncle
Enos T. Throop was the governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. In 1894, she married lawyer
Samuel H. Ordway
Samuel Hanson Ordway (born New York City, New York (state), New York, June 8, 1860; died New York City, New York, April 19, 1934) was an American lawyer, judge, public servant, and advocate of civil service reform. He served briefly as a judge of ...
(1860-1934) (brother of businessman
Lucius Pond Ordway, nephew of composer
John Pond Ordway) and ended her painting career.
Samuel Ordway and Frances Throop Ordway had two children, Frances Hanson Ordway (1898–1903) and
Samuel H. Ordway Jr. (1900–1971). Samuel Jr. was, like his father, an advocate of civil service reform, serving on civil service commissions on both the state and federal levels. He was also active in conservation; the Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. Memorial Preserve in South Dakota was created in 1975 in his memory by
The Nature Conservancy. Frances Throop Ordway died in 1933
in East Hampton, New York.
Gallery
File:Spring Carnations, by Frances Hunt Throop, 1893.jpg, ''Spring Carnations'', by Frances Hunt Throop, 1893
References
External links
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1860 births
1933 deaths
American women painters
19th-century American women artists
19th-century American painters