Cecilia Beaux
Painting, Visual Artist
1855 – 1942
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Who was Cecilia Beaux?
Cecilia Beaux was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
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- Born
- May 1, 1855
Philadelphia - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(1877 - 1879) - Académie Julian
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Employment
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(1895 - 1936)
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Sep 7, 1942
Gloucester
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on July 23, 2013
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