Cecilia Beaux

1855–1942 · United States · Realism

Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) 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. Wikipedia

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“Sita and Sarita”, 1896 — Musée d'Orsay
“Les derniers jours d' enfance”, 1883 — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“The Velie Boys”, 1913 — Dayton Art Institute
“Cardinal Mercier”, 1919 — Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Bertha Hallowell Vaughan (1866-1948)”, 1901 — Harvard Art Museums
“After the Meeting”, 1914 — Toledo Museum of Art
“Half-Tide, Annisquam River”, 1905 — High Museum of Art
“Self-portrait”, 1925 — Uffizi Gallery
“Twilight Confidences”, 1888 — Georgia Museum of Art
“Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes”, 1898 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Ernesta”, 1914 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Dorothea and Francesca”, 1898 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Ernesta (Child with Nurse)”, 1894 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Brother and Sister: Charles Sumner Bird and His Sister Edith Bird (Mrs. Robert Bass)”, 1907 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker”, 1891 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Portrait of George Burnham”, 1887 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Landscape with Farm Building, Concarneau, France”, 1888 — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“Mother and Child”, 1905
“Portrait of a Man”, 1905
“Portrait of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge (Catherine Eddy; Lady Primrose Portrait)”, 1916
“Portrait of Mrs. Addison C. Harris”, 1917
“Mrs. Elizabeth M. Howe”, 1903 — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“Henry Sandwith Drinker”, 1901
“Mrs. Robert Chapin and Daughter Christina”, 1902 — Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
“Portrait of Alice Davison”, 1909
“Admiral Sir David Beatty, Lord Beatty”, 1920 — Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker)”, 1898 — Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Georges Clemenceau”, 1920 — Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Mother and Daughter”, 1898 — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“New England Woman”, 1895 — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“Richard Watson Gilder”, 1902 — National Portrait Gallery
“Cecilia Beaux Self-Portrait”, 1891 — National Portrait Gallery
“Portrait of Sarah E. Doyle”, 1902
“Portrait of Judith Brooks Knight”, 1907 — Reading Public Museum
“Alexander Harrison”, 1888 — Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
“Mrs. Larz Anderson”, 1900–1901 — Larz Anderson House
“Henry Howard Houston Jr.”, 1885 — University of Pennsylvania
“Algernon Sydney Biddle.”, 1875 — University of Pennsylvania
“Lane Lovell and His Dog”, 1913
“Breton Girl”, 1888 — Fogg Museum

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