Rebecca McDuffee McGeorge The portrait of Rebecca McDuffee McGeorge is believed to have been painted by her niece's husband, Edward Curran Herrick. Rebecca McDuffee was born in 1798, probably in Athens, the eleventh of twelve children of Daniel McDuffee (1752-1831) and Dorothy Ladley (1755-1845), both natives of County Antrim, Ireland. Rebecca's sister Anna McDuffee Tyler was the mother of Eliza Tyler Herrick, wife of the artist Edward Curran Herrick, and Mary Tyler Long, who