Helen Swift Neilson

Helen Swift Neilson
Born	1869 Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died	18 June 1945 Chicago

Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 1945) was an American writer and art collector.

Neilson was the daughter of the meatpacking entrepreneur Gustavus Franklin Swift. She became the second wife of the British politician and writer Francis Neilson, with whom she founded the weekly paper The Freeman in 1920.

She is perhaps best known for her book about her parents called My Father and My Mother. Neilson died in Chicago.

She bequeathed several notable paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan, by Rembrandt

The Lovesick Maiden, by Jan Steen

Portrait of Janet Law, by Henry Raeburn

Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Pechell (Charlotte Clavering, died 1841), by John Hoppner

Portrait of Thomas Pechell (1753–1826), by John Hoppner

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