# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-jane-gardner
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:09:09.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-jane-gardner"
name: "Elizabeth Jane Gardner"
slug: "elizabeth-jane-gardner"
description: "Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823–1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), and finally under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). After Bouguereau's wife died, Gardner became his paramour and after the death of his mother, who bitterly opposed the union, she married him in 1896. She adopted his subjects, compositions, and even his smooth facture, channeling his style so successfully that some of her work might be mistaken for his. In fact, she was quoted as saying, \"I know I am censured for not more boldly asserting my individuality, but I would rather be known as the best imitator of Bouguereau than be nobody!\""
tagline: "US painter (1837-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ElizabethGardnerB1860.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1837-10-04"
deathDate: "1922-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.85004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump