Nell Shipman with her twins, Daphne Anne and Charles Douglas Ayers. They were born in Spain in 1926, scarcely a month after Shipman and Charles Austin Ayers arrived there for a year-and-a-half sojourn.
Portrait of Nell Shipman and her twin children, Charles Douglas Ayers and Daphne Anne Ayers, painted by Charles H. Austin Ayers, the twins' father, in 1930 while the family was living in Taos, New Mexico, at Mabel Dodge Luhan's artists' retreat. ...
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Portrait artist Charles H. Austin Ayers (1889-1964), Nell Shipman's partner from 1925 until 1934, and father of her two children, the twins Charles Douglas and Daphne Anne.
