HAMMOND, MRS. OGDEN
Neg. No: (GP) 8858
Neg. Size: 15"x12"
Neg. Date: 22-06-1922

Sitter: Mrs. Ogden Hammond, previously Mrs (“Daisy”) McClure Howland .

Daughter of a prominent New York Attorney, Daisy McClure first married the much older and wealthy Dulany Howland. He, however, died in 1915 and two years later Daisy married the widowed American businessman (and later diplomat) Ogden Hammond whose first wife had died when the Lusitania was torpedoed by the Germans in 1917.

In this image, Daisy, now Mrs Ogden Hammond, is seen the day after her presentation at the Court. The cut of her gown, the veil and garland of flowers over her left shoulder are all slightly provincial by 1922. On the other hand, she wears a large cabochon emerald set in a beautiful necklace of pearls gathered with diamond jointing.

She was said to have “incandescent red hair” and to have been an unloving stepmother to her new husband’s three children.

Biog: "In 1917 the American businessman (and later diplomat) Ogden Hammond married the widowed Marguerite “Daisy” McClure Howland in 1917. His first wife, Mary Picten Stevens, died on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by the Germans in 1917.
In this image, the new Mrs Ogden Hammond is seen the day after her presentation at the Court. The cut of her gown, the veil and garland of flowers over her left shoulder are all slightly provincial by 1922.

History does not record her as having been an affectionate stepmother to Ogden Hammond’s children from his first wife, and in 1931, when Hugh McLeod Fenwick divorced his wife to marry Ogden’s daughter Millicent, Daisy was so appalled that she threw her out of the house and attempted to sabotage the wedding. Over forty years later, Millicent Fenwick was elected to Congress at the age of 64 – in what the media described as a “geriatric triumph”.

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Date: 22 June 1922.

Occasion: The Court, 21 June 1922: presented by Mrs. Harvey.

Location: The Lafayette Studio, 160 New Bond Street, London, W.

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: Court dress.

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Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop; Rococo highbacked armchair.

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No of poses: 3.

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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.

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Occasion: The Times, 23 June 1922, p 15a.

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