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Framed pastel drawing titled "Sapphire and Gold" primarily in blues and yellow-golds, which has an old paper label on the back, "Artist E.F. Champney 537 Henry Building, Seattle" and a second label that reads: "Drawn by Frere Champney in Seattle, Washington around 1919." The scene is similar to Edward Frere's other work in the HD collection (HD 69.0183). Edward Frere Champney (1874-1929) and his sister, Maria Mitchell Champney (1876-1906), were the children of the artist James Wells Champney (1843-1903) and Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922), a well-known writer of her period. Edward originally studied art, but later became a prominent architect in Seattle, Washington. He married Mary Alice Robbins (1882-1950), the daughter of the Rev. Francis Lebaron Robbins, Sr. (1830-1920) and Lucy Morton Hartpence Robbins (1856-1935) in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1923, and is buried in the Deerfield cemetary. Several James Wells Champney works have been given to HD from the Robbins family, including a watercolor of Edward Frere as a boy (HD 80.028). The donor, Captain Edgar Miller Williams (1889-1986), was the son of Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams (1863-1951) who married Anna M. Miller (1860-1955), the daughter of Dr. J. M. Miller of Springfield, Ohio, in 1888; his grandfather was Orson Bennet Williams (1834-1912), who was born in Ashfield and married Pamelia L. Floyd of Springfield, Ohio, in 1862; his great-grandfather was Samuel Barnard Williams (1803-1884) of Deerfield who married Mary A. Bennet (d.1839) of Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1834, and Caroline Johnson (d.1885) in 1844; his great-great grandfather was Elijah Williams (1767-1832) who married Hannah Barnard (1772-1853), daughter of Samuel Barnard (1721-1788) of Deerfield, in 1803; and his great-great-great grandfather was Dr. Thomas Williams (1718-1775) of Deerfield. This branch of the Williams family is also related to Elizabeth Williams Champney who was the half-sister of Orson Bennet Williams.
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