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Cecilia Beaux:
American figure and portrait painter , 1855-1942
American painter. She began her career painting on porcelain and producing lithographs and portrait drawings. She studied with Catharine Ann Drinker (1871), Francis Adolf van der Wielen (1872-3) and Camille Piton (1879), at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1877-8), and privately with William Sartain (1881-3). Under Sartain's guidance, she learnt to paint, producing her first major portrait, the Last Days of Infancy
Sita and Sarita(Girl with a Cat)
Salon de la Societe nationale des Beaux-Arts,1896
3' 1'' x 2' 1''(94 x 63.5 cm)Gift of the artist,1921
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