Isabella Stewart Gardner
American
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
Significant name | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Boston | |||||
1860/04/10 | Isabella Stewart marries John Lowell Gardner at Grace Church in Manhattan, New York City. | Bride | Grace Episcopal Church, New York | New York City | Marriage of Isabella Stewart and John L Gardner | ||
1880/00/00 | From the 1880s onward, John Gardner's daughter-in-law, Isabella Gardner adds an early Italian garden, a Japanese garden, greenhouses and elaborate iris beds to his Green Hill estate at 135 Warren St. | Home | Green Hill Historic District | Brookline, MA | |||
1888/00/00 | Isabella Stewart Gardner - created | Subject | Isabella Stewart Gardner | ||||
1890/00/00 | Isabella Stewart Gardner visits the Parkmans. | Guest | Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion | Portsmouth, NH | |||
1900/00/00 | Large pedestal candelabra (Italian, c 16th century) near the altar are thought to have been the gift of Isabella Stewart Gardner, who occasionally worshipped here and was a major patron of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist. | Benefactor | St John the Evangelist Church and Rectory | Boston | |||
1903/01/00 | Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. | Benefactor | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Boston | |||
1903/02/00 | Fenway Court opens to the public. The Gothic Room, which was not open, is dominated by Sargent's 1888 portrait of Gardner. The room was richly decorated according to her unique sensibilities with paintings, furniture, fabrics and architectural elements. | Decorator | Isabella Stewart Gardner | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Boston | ||
1924/07/17 | Isabella Stewart dies in Boston. She is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. | Died | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge | Cambridge, MA |
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