{"id":394,"date":"2016-05-09T03:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=394"},"modified":"2016-05-09T03:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:36:03","slug":"maria-elston-portrait","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Elston Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Elston\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston-818x1024.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/em><strong>Unknown Artist<\/strong>,<em>\u00a0Maria Akin Elston<\/em>, c. 1840s, oil on canvas<\/p>\n<p>Maria Elston was born in 1805 in Quaker Hills, New York to a Quaker father, Jas Akin and a hellion mother, Sylvia Arnold. Maria moved with her mother at a young age to Vincennes, Indiana only to find Maria\u2019s father scalped by Indians. The mother and daughter then moved to Terre Haute, Indiana. While in Terre Haute, Maria eventually met Isaac Elston, a young merchant, banker, and land developer, who she married in 1823. Maria was an extremely beautiful 17-year-old, while Elston was a successful 29-year-old. The painting does a poor job of portraying Maria\u2019s beauty. This is an indication of the lack of portraiture talent in Indiana for much of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Click the links below for more information about\u00a0this painting and artist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/the-elston-family-tree\/\">The Elston Family Tree<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/the-strength-of-maria-and-her-mother-sylvia\/\">The strength of Maria and her mother, Sylvia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/bibliography-maria-elston\/\">Bibliography<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gage Ulery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown Artist,\u00a0Maria Akin Elston, c. 1840s, oil on canvas Maria Elston was born in 1805 in Quaker Hills, New York to a Quaker father, Jas Akin and a hellion mother, Sylvia Arnold. Maria moved with her mother at a young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions\/408"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}