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Gari and Corinne Melchers

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February 5, 2021

Conservation of Painting Yields New Information

Portrait of a Young Girl with Fan, 1626 In anticipation of the upcoming webinar program on Belmont's Portrait of a Young Girl

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Children,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Historic Home,  Historic House,  Historic House Museum,  Visual Arts

Mrs. Gari Melchers

September 23, 2020

Wife & Model

While headed to Italy on a transatlantic cruise ship in 1902 with her mother and younger brother, twenty-one year old art student Corinne Lawton

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September 20, 2020

Corinne Melchers: Reluctant Artist

Corinne Melchers, circa 1903 Our benefactress, Corinne Melchers, remains somewhat of an enigma today. Did you know she was a painter? While her

Category iconArt,  Artist Studio,  Belmont Estate,  Corinne Melchers,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio

Gari Melchers

July 13, 2020

Gari Melchers: American Master 1860-1932

The name Gari Melchers once held true star power.  At the pinnacle of his career, Melchers occupied studios in Paris, Holland and New York, was

Category iconArt,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock,  Julius Melchers,  Studio and Galleries,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,  Visual Arts

May 9, 2020

The Early Modern Masterpiece That Might Have Been Ours

  When the National Gallery of Art opened the exhibition Degas at the Races in 1998, Peter Stroh, Gari Melchers’ great nephew, got to wondering

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Historic House Museum,  Studio and Galleries

August 23, 2017

Paint Analysis Reveals Hidden Intentions

In 2013, Belmont hired Susan Buck, Ph.D. to conduct a comprehensive interior paint analysis of the house museum.  Buck is the same conservator

Category iconGari and Corinne Melchers,  Historic Home,  Historic House,  Paint Analysis Tag iconPaint Analysis,  Susan L Buck

Putto base

March 14, 2016

Mannsfield Stone

The stone used to build the studio, summer house, and stone garage, as well as those that make our paths and garden walls, have recently been

Category iconCivil War,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Historic Home Tag icondinosaurs,  footprints,  John Hennessy,  Library of Congress,  National Park Service,  sandstone,  stone work

February 24, 2016

Gates with a Story

Anecdotal evidence has long suggested that Belmont's studio and lower pasture gates originated from the grand 1834 house "Smithsonia," located at the

Category iconBelmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers Tag iconFredericksburg,  Smithsonia,  Virginia

Hay loft sweep-out hatch

August 31, 2015

Cow Barn Restoration Completed

The restoration of the exterior of the Melchers’s cow barn was completed this summer. Habalis Construction was the general contractor on the project

Category iconBelmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers Tag iconcow barn,  farm,  restoration

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