Allan Marquand [SEP] date of birth
Allan Marquand
Allan Marquand (1853–1924) was an art historian at Princeton University and a curator of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Biography.
Marquand was the son of Henry Gurdon Marquand, a prominent philanthropist and art collector. After graduating from Princeton in 1874, Allan obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1880, at the Johns Hopkins University. His thesis, supervised by Charles Sanders Peirce, was on the logic of Philodemus. In June 1896, he married Eleanor Cross Marquand, daughter of Richard J. Cross and Matilda
), who married Helen Leigh Hunt (1893–1996), daughter of real estate investor Leigh S. J. Hunt and sister of Henry Leigh Hunt, who was married to Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin.
- Mildred Sara Rives (1893–1927), who married architect Frederick Marquand Godwin (1889–1961) of Cedarmere in Roslyn, New York, in 1917. Frederick was a cousin of Professor Allan Marquand. Mildred died in December 1927 giving birth to their only child, Peter Bryant Godwin, who also died during birth.
The Rives had