"Both Daniel and Ariana Curtis are buried in the churchyard at Dedham, and there are memorial plaques to the Wormeley family inside the church, and to Daniel Curtis and his youngest son Osborne Curtis (on the exterior wall above the Curtis tombstone)." Source: John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray.

Obituary: The Harvard Graduates Magazine, Volume 17

Daniel Sargent Curtis, born in Boston, Nov. 9, 1825, died in London, July 2, 1908, was the son of Thomas Buckminster Curtis, who was a midshipman in the U. S. Navy in the War of 1812, and later merchant and banker in Boston; and of Maria Osborne Sargent, daughter of Daniel Sargent and Mary Frazier, his wife. He went through the usual private school curriculum of his time in Boston, was graduated at Harvard College in 1846, and at the Law School in 1849, and was duly admitted to the bar. He never practiced law, but after two years' travel and study in Europe, he entered the counting-room of his father, who was Boston manager and agent of the merchant and banking houses of Brown, Shipley & Co., of London and Liverpool, and Brown Bros. & Co., of New York and Boston. In this office he succeeded his father and later retired from business in 1876 and thereafter lived abroad.

In 1853 he married Ariana Randolph Wormeley, daughter of Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, R.N., and of Caroline Preble, his wife, daughter of Eben Preble, of Boston. Their Boston residence was 74 Mt. Vernon St., later 214 Beacon St., and at Chestnut Hill, and Newport, R.I., and finally for many years at Palazzo Barbaro, Grand Canal, Venice, with a winter apartment in Rome.

He died in London, July 2, 1908, of heart failure, after an illness of two days. His widow survives with their two sons, Ralph Wormeley Curtis, '76, who lives at St. Jean-sur-Mer, on the Rivieria, who married Elisa (de Wolf Colt), widow of Arthur Rotch, and has two daughters, Sylvia and Marjorie; and Osborne Sargent Curtis, '78, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, 1882, who lives in Norfolk, England, and married Henrietta Garnett Gandy, of Penrith, Cumberland, England, and has sons, Henry Osborne, now of the 60th Rifles, English Army, and Arthur Randolph Wormeley, and a daughter, Ariana Edith.

Mr. Curtis shrank from political office and publicity. He served for several years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library. To his intimates he was known as a writer of great literary facility and polished style, but owing to his own fastidious and critical taste, no writings of his were published. He early obtained and retained to the last a wide reputation as a brilliant wit and raconteur. He was always a great reader and a master of historical and artistic literature. His social and genial temperament led to his intimacy and friendship with many persons of distinction in America, Europe, and also in India, whither he had made several journeys. An oil portrait of him by Mancini is owned by his family, but has never been reproduced. The most striking likeness of him appears in a painting by Sargent, an interior of the grand salon of his Venetian palace, in which are grouped he and his wife and their son Ralph and his wife. This picture was given by Sargent as his diploma picture on his election as a member of the Royal Academy, and hangs in the Diploma Gallery at Burlington House, London. It has frequently been reproduced in magazine articles on Sargent and his works.