Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt was the wife of George Washington Vanderbilt (married in 1898), and together they owned the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. designed by Richard Morris Hunt,  I recently visited there and it is beautiful!  The painting is still at Biltmore, which is the largest private residence in the United States.  

Edith later married Peter Goelet Gerry, a senator from Rhode Island. 
 
John Singer Sargent 
 
George Washington Vanderbilt 
1890
(First husband to Edith Stuyvesant Dresser) 

 
George W. Vanderbilt's Country Chateau at Biltmore N.C. (1889-95) 
 

Notes 
Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me a note regarding this image. 

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