Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun

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Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun
Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun (1867, Paris) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.jpg
Artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Year1867
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions116 cm× 90 cm(46 in× 35 in)
LocationPrivate collection

Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun is an oil painting made in January 1867 by European court painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter depicting American plantation heiress Marie Margaret Ada Calhoun, later Ada Calhoun Lane. [1] Calhoun was the daughter of Meredith Calhoun, who owned vast plantations and well over 1,000 slaves in Louisiana and Alabama, but had lived in France almost full-time beginning in 1842. [2] In 2016, the portrait of Ada Calhoun was the only image of an American included in the traveling exhibit High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter. [3] The painting apparently hung at Abingdon Place in Huntsville, Alabama in 1895, at which time it was witness to a dinner honoring suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, who had been invited to town to speak on the topic of votes for women. [4]

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  1. Keith (2008), p. 53.
  2. Keith (2008), p. 33.
  3. Elliott, Amber (2016-04-15). ""High Society" exhibit debuted before international crowd". Houston Chronicle. ISSN   1074-7109. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
  4. Chapman, Elizabeth M. (September 9, 1934). "Huntsville Life in the Gay '90s". The Huntsville Times via Newspapers.com.

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