ANNE HARDING PALFREY
Born in 1833, Anne was the daughter of the wealthy planter Winthrop Sargent Harding and his wife Frances Elizabeth Conrad. In 1855, she married her first cousin, William Taylor Palfrey, Jr., and was a widow by 1860. Her only son, Winthrop Harding Palfrey, was blind, and gave his mother’s portrait to his reader and friend, James Eaton Stansbury, the great-uncle of the donor. This portrait was probably painted in 1856 while Anne was in mourning for her father, and is attributed to artist William Henry Baker, a New York native who worked in New Orleans in the mid-19th century. Gift of Rowland E. Caldwell, Jr.
