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From: Dale
Headington
You have a comment underneath about the complexities of the Vanderbilts [since deleted]. The following brief note may help clarify the relations. Consuelo Duchess of
Marlborough (1877-1964)
[this painting] was the daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt I and
sister
of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, whose first wife was Virginia
Graham Fair Vanderbilt [off site] (1875-1935). They were the
parents
of Muriel
and Consuelo Vanderbilt (the two girls in the double portrait) [off
site]. Hence you were quite correct, the girls were Consuelo
Marlborough's
neices. Gladys Deacon
(1881-1977)
was the second wife of the Duke
of Marlborough after he and Consuelo were divorced. Edith
Suyvesent Dresser Vanderbilt (1873-1958) was the wife of George
Washington
Vanderbilt, youngest brother to William Kissam Vanderbilt I (Consuelo's
father) and therefore uncle to William Kissam Vanderbilt II and
Consuelo
Marlborough.
See John Singer Sargent's
painting
of Consuelo with her family in 1905:
The painting (thumbnail
above) also
painted by Boldini, is more around c.1915 - Consuelo was the younger of
the two and born in 1903 - Dale guesses that she is about 12 in the
picture.
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