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- Humphrey married a heart and lung surgeon, Dr. Belmont Deforest Bogart, in 1898 and had three children—two daughters and a son who became the famous actor, Humphrey Bogart. It is said that she used her son as the model for advertisements for the Mellin Baby Food Company.
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Humphrey married a heart and lung surgeon, Dr. Belmont Deforest Bogart, in 1898 and had three children—two daughters and a son who became the famous actor, Humphrey Bogart. It is said that she used her son as the model for advertisements for the Mellin Baby Food Company.
Nov 14, 2019 · Maud’s son, Humphrey was the model used for her most famous advertising illustrations – advertisements for the Mellin’s Baby Food Company. Both parents spent a great deal of time at home. Their careers allowed the doctor to practice in the family home and the artist to have a studio with a nursery on the third floor.
Maud Humphrey did not create the Gerber Baby image, nor did her son Humphrey serve as the model contrary to what many believe. Humphrey did use her son as a model for some of her artwork. Maud Humphrey died on November 22, 1940, in Hollywood, California.
Feb 7, 2011 · One model for the baby was her son, Humphrey Bogart – yes, the Humphrey Bogart. Maud Humphrey was born in Rochester, New York, to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V. Dewey Churchill and was raised among the Rochester elite.
Jul 27, 2013 · Bogie was used by his mother as the model for Mellins Baby Food, which was a popular brand before Gerber came along. For the record, the Gerber Baby illustration was the work of Dorothy Hope Smith, and the model was her neighbor, four-month old neighbor Ann Cook.
Mar 13, 2011 · Her marriage to Dr. Belmont De Forest Bogart, a fashionable surgeon, in 1898 pushed them into the Social Register, and Maud’s talents–which included exceptionally popular books of her illustrations, and the ad campaign for Mellins Baby Food (for which baby Humphrey was used as model)–pushed her income to over $50,000 a year, far more than ...
A drawing of Humphrey by his mother, successful commercial artist Maud Humphrey (1865-1940), was used in the advertisements. In sentimental Victorian tradition, Maud Humphrey portrayed her son as a little round-faced cherub with rosy cheeks, ringlet curls, and large eyes.
