This is a black and white image of a painting by Edmund Cartran of Katherine Alexandra Duer Mackay (US1797spouse1) during the year 1898.
Another photograph of them taken at the same time and place can be seen by clicking here.
The caption accompanying this photograph reads:
1898: Painted by Edmund Cartran the year she married, eighteen-year-old Katherine Duer was shown in a glade, holding an orchid in her hand. Still others orchids ornamented the corsage of her white satin dress and more still, a cascading coiffure.Where and why, had a golden couple gone so wrong? Why did Katherine convert to Roman Catholicism? Newspaper accounts at the time of her engagement said she was taking instruction. What happened? Why did Clarence Mackay, eager that they be accepted as American aristocrats, insist that their children must be raised in his faith?
See Harbor Hill, Clarence Hungerford Mackay's Mansion.
