Artist Introduction: 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
"Bertha Hallowell Vaughan," oil on canvas, by the American artist Cecilia Beaux. 58 in. x 38 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Samuel Vaughan and Mrs. Langdon P. Marvin to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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