Eliza Susan Quincy: A Pioneer of American Watercolor and Family History Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1798-1884) stands as a remarkable figure in 19th-century American art and scholarship—a woman who defied societal expectations to pursue both artistic expression and meticulous genealogical research. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Eliza Susan Morton and Josiah Quincy III – a prominent Bostonian lawyer and Harvard Univ…