Cecilia Beaux
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican artist (1855-1942)
Fame50.8
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Languages25
Peak1910s
In century#4,062
Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Photos 12
Mrs. Robert Abbe (Catherine Amory Bennett), 1888-89, now on display at the Brooklyn Museum
New England Woman. Portrait of Mrs. Jedidiah H. Richards (Beaux's cousin Julia Leavitt), 1895, now on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia
Twilight Confidences, 1888
Self-portrait by Beaux in 1894
Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux (1920)
Dorothea and Francesca in 1898
Sita and Sarita (Jeune Fille au Chat), a portrait of Sarah Allibone Leavitt, 1893-1894, now on display at the Musée d'Orsay in ParisAwards 1
Connected to Cecilia 3
Artists from United States 3
About this person
Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
Country
United StatesCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1855 to 1942 · aged 87
Written about in
25 languages
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