Cecilia Beaux
American figure and portrait painter , 1855-1942
American painter. She began her career painting on porcelain and producing lithographs and portrait drawings. She studied with Catharine Ann Drinker (1871), Francis Adolf van der Wielen (1872-3) and Camille Piton (1879), at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1877-8), and privately with William Sartain (1881-3). Under Sartain's guidance, she learnt to paint, producing her first major portrait, the Last Days of Infancy
ID: 71512 Mrs. Robert Abbe (Catherine Amory Bennett) between 1898(1898) and 1899(1899)
Oil on canvas
188 x 99.1 cm (74.02 x 39.02 in)