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 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)
