Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy) wife of the president of B & O Southwestern Railroad (and dog), painted in 1897 by Anders Zorn, a painting said to have been admired by both John Singer Sargent and James Whistler when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1897. By me, too.
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the collie’s dress is just as beautiful as hers . . .