Ann (Willing) Bingham (1764-1801)

Mrs "Nancy" (Willing) Bingham of Philadelphia

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She and her husband William Bingham were the undisputed young power couple of Revolutionary America. Nancy was the model for several portraits by the noted society portraitist Gilbert Stuart. According to legend, Mrs Bingham was the model for "Lady Liberty" on the American "Draped Bust" coins minted during the first decade of the 19th century. When she died at sea, her husband never recovered and died of a broken heart in England while resident with their eldest daughter, Lady Ashburton. 

Parents

Thomas Willing

1st President of the First Bank of the United States etc.

1731-1821

Anne (McCall) Willing

Mrs Ann (McCall) Willing

1745-1781

Spouse

William Bingham

Senator William Bingham, of Philadelphia; President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate

1752-1804

Children

Ann (Bingham) Baring

Lady Ann Louisa (Bingham) Baring, Baroness Ashburton

1782-1848

Maria (Bingham) de Blaisel

Maria Matilda (Bingham) Comtesse de Tilly, Mrs Baring, Marquise de Blaisel

1783-1849

William Bingham

William Bingham, of Montreal, Paris, then Broome Park, Kent

1800-1852

Associated Houses

Bingham Hill

Rumson, New Jersey

Lansdowne House

Blockley Township, Pennsylvania

Bingham Mansion

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Fashionistas & Socialites Heiresses Patriots Remarkable Women
Portrait of Ann Bingham (1797) by Gilbert Stuart, Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art