MARY BAKER EDDY

Creator(s): Unknown (Artist) , Howard Chandler Christy (After)

Currently in storage

About this object

Portrait of Mary Baker Eddy was painted as a result of Christy's healing from blindness. It was sold to B. Palmer Lewis, the Christian Science practitioner, on Oct. 15, 1942. The portrait was published as a frontispiece in "The Cross and the Crown," by Norman Beasley. It is a copy of an original Christy painting owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA; it hangs in a meeting room of The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Object name:

MARY BAKER EDDY

Made from:

Oil on glass

Date made:

ca. 1942 (?)

Size:

H. 4 1/4 in., W. 3 1/4 in.

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

53.70

Signature marks:

Inscription Howard Chandler Christy 1942 Lower left of miniature Inscription COPYRIGHT '42 Lower right of miniature

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973