Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy

After leaving England, she spent some time in Montreal, Canada, before coming to New York City.

[3][4] She also painted portraits of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, Admiral George Dewey and Governor William Dillingham (part of the Vermont State Archives), Senator Mark Hanna, Joseph H. Choate, John Hay,[5] John Stewart Kennedy, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, Bessie Rockefeller, E. H. Harriman, Cornelius N. Bliss, General Daniel Butterfield, Adrian Georg Iselin, Thomas Edison, Chauncey Depew, and New York mayors Abram Hewitt, Seth Low, and William Lafayette Strong.

[6] One of the few woman working in portraiture at the time, Harriet could command better rates through her husband's name (up to $4,000 for a commission), therefore, "her portraits were signed W.D.

Together, they were the parents of: After the death of her husband in 1928, she moved to the Hotel Irvin for Women at 308 West 30th Street in New York City.

After a service at the Chapel of the Home for Incurables, she was buried in St. Michael's Cemetery on Astoria Boulevard in Queens.