# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eleanor-sayre
# Generated: 2026-09-04T23:52:17.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eleanor-sayre"
name: "Eleanor Sayre"
slug: "eleanor-sayre"
description: "Eleanor Axson Sayre was an American curator, art historian, and a specialist on the works of Goya. She was the first woman to serve as departmental curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Working as curator of prints and drawings, she collected Goya's etchings from museums around the world to catalogue and create international exhibits. She was awarded a knighthood with the Lazo de Dama in the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Spain in 1975 and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 1991."
tagline: "American art historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eleanor_Axson_Sayre_in_1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-03-26"
deathDate: "2001-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1664145234493192
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اليانور ساير"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump