''Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun'' is an oil painting made in January 1867 by European court painter

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depicting American plantation heiress Marie Margaret Ada Calhoun, later Ada Calhoun Lane. Calhoun was the daughter of

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, who owned vast plantations and well over 1,000 slaves in Louisiana and Alabama, but had lived in France almost full-time beginning in 1842. In 2016, the portrait of Ada Calhoun was the only image of an American included in the traveling exhibit ''High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter''. The painting apparently hung at Abingdon Place in

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in 1895, at which time it was witness to a dinner honoring suffragists Susan B. Anthony and

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, who had been invited to town to speak on the topic of votes for women.

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