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Lydig, Rita de Acosta, 1880-1929: print view: role: Collector Patron dates: 1875-1929 city New York City state: NY: other cities: Paris, France; London, United Kingdom; sex F historical notes: Rita Lydig, née Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta, was an art collector, patron, socialite and philanthropist.
10 de ene. de 2020 · Rita de Acosta Lydig photographed by Baron Adolf de Meyer,c 1913 But meanwhile, she also supported the suffragette cause. In 1921, Lydig announced her engagement to Reverend Percy Stickney Grant (1860–1927), rector of the Church of the Ascension, but Grant broke the engagement in 1924 and died two years later, but he left Lydig all of his personal fortune.
Rita De Acosta Lydig, Oil On Canvas, 1912, By Ignacio Zuloaga. Rita de Acosta was married twice. Her first marriage was on January 3, 1895 when the 16 year old Rita became the first wife of multimillionaire William Earl Dodge Stokes (1852–1926), who built The Ansonia on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The marriage was ...
18 de sept. de 2016 · Mrs. Lydig collected violins expressly so that Mr. Yanturni could use their thin, light wood for his shoe trees. With its tree inside, each shoe weighed no more than an ostrich feather. She preserved these shoes in trunks of Russian leather made in St. Petersburg, with heavy locks and a rich cream velvet lining. Cecil Beaton.
From the New York Times 20 October 1929 Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, long prominent socially, died yesterday afternoon in her apartment at the Hotel Gotham. Mrs. Lydig had long been a sufferer from pernicious anaemia and she had been quite ill for the past three weeks. Her condition had not been considered serious,...
Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta Stokes Lydig was an American socialite regarded as "the most picturesque woman in America."
Abundant, well-preserved materials relating to the 1916 to 1917 exhibition of paintings by the Spanish artist Ignacio Zuloaga under the auspices of collector, patron, and philanthropist Rita de Acosta Lydig survive in the holdings of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) libraries and archives, allowing the exhibition and details about its administration to come to life.
