NESBIT PORTRAIT
AIRED: Season 2, Episode 5
Season 3, Episode 11
THE DETECTIVES: Elyse Luray and Tukufu Zuberi
THE PLACE: New Jersey, New York
THE CASE:
A woman in New Jersey owns a portrait she believes is a lost masterpiece by one of America's greatest illustrators and artists, Howard Chandler Christy.
The painting's subject is claimed to be Evelyn Nesbit, the actress and model who came to fame in 1906 when her husband killed a famous architect accused of "taking advantage" of her.
The resulting scandal rocked New York in the early 1900's and became the "trial of the century."
But is this painting authentic? Can the History Detectives shed light on that famous case?
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