page_title: Jenny Eakin Delony
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jenny Eakin Delony / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Jenny Eakin Delony at her Little Rock, Arkansas studio, April 1891
context_page_description: Jenny Eakin Delony, also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice and Jenny Meyrowitz, was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraits of notable and historic figures in the United States, but also made miniature, landscape, wildlife, still life, and genre paintings. She was the founder of collegiate art education in Arkansas.
context_section_description: Delony was born in Washington, Arkansas, on May 13, 1866, to Alchyny Turner Delony, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Pearson Delony.
  Delony married Nathaniel J. Rice of Denver, Colorado, on December 10, 1891. He died in 1893. Her second marriage was to Paul A. Meyrowitz, on November 19, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois.
  She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the American Revolution.
caption: Jenny Eakin Delony at her Little Rock, Arkansas studio, April 1891
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