page_title: John Wheeler Leavitt
section_title: Quotes
hierarchical_section_title: John Wheeler Leavitt / Quotes
caption_attribution_description: English: Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist.
context_page_description: John Wheeler Leavitt was a prominent New York City businessman, founder of J. W. & R. Leavitt Company, eventually declared insolvent, and grandfather of American society portrait painter Cecilia Beaux, who frequently painted members of the family.
  Leavitt ran the family-owned trading partnership, and was one of the most prominent businessmen of his age until financial reverses caused the bankruptcy of the firm. In spite of the financial reverses, Leavitt and his wife went on to help raise their granddaughter painter Beaux after her mother died shortly after she was born and her French father fled back to France.
context_section_description: –  American painter Cecilia Beaux, Background with Figures: Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930
caption: American portrait artist Cecilia Beaux, ca. 1888. Raised by grandfather John Wheeler Leavitt and wife Cecilia (Kent) Leavitt
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