92 Color Paintings of Cecilia Beaux - American Society Portra... by Jacek Michalak

Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), The Last Days of Infancy (1883-85), oil on canvas, further details not known. She started studying with William Sartain, a friend of Eakins, in 1881, preferring his more gentle style and his belief in phrenology. She won the Mary Smith Prize at the Academy’s exhibitions in 1885, 1887, 1891, and 1892. She was introduced to lithography in 1873 and started undertaking illustration work, but in her quest for art began to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, when Eakins started voluntarily assisting its then director, Christian Schussele. When only 18, she became drawing teacher at a private school, taking over there from Catherine Ann Drinker. She started art lessons with a relative, Catherine Ann Drinker, then with Francis Adolf Van der Wielen. She was raised by her grandmother and aunts, in the same city, and her father returned to his native France. Although she was one of his most famous and successful students, Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942) could perhaps foresee the trouble that was coming, and in her words “a curious instinct of self-preservation kept me outside the magic circle.”Įliza Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a prosperous family, but her mother died shortly afterwards. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch.įor more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright.Thomas Eakins was a very different teacher from William Merritt Chase. The Brooklyn Museum makes no representations or warranties with respect to the application or terms of any international agreement governing copyright protection in the United States for works created by foreign nationals.įor further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S.

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92 Color Paintings of Cecilia Beaux - American Society Portra... by Jacek Michalak