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 Related Paintings of Cecilia Beaux :. | Mrs. Robert Abbe (Catherine Amory Bennett) | Man with the Cat Portrait of Henry Sturgis Drinker | Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux | Bertha Hallowell Vaughan | Painting of William Henry Howell | Related Artists:
Hugh Henry Breckenridge1870-1937
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Jan Abrahamsz. BeerstratenFlemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1627-1666
GOZZOLI, BenozzoItalian Early Renaissance Painter, 1420-1497
Italian Renaissance painter. Early in his career he assisted Lorenzo Ghiberti on the east doors of the Baptistery in Florence and Fra Angelico on frescoes in Florence, Rome, and Orvieto. His reputation today rests on the breathtaking fresco cycle The Journey of the Magi (1459 C 61) in the chapel of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Palace. His work as a whole was undistinguished, however. He painted several altarpieces and a series of 25 frescoes of Old Testament scenes