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Ellen K. Baker
Martha S. Baker
Cecilia
Beaux
Enella Benedict
Susan Hinckley Bradley
Fidelia Bridges
Matilda C. Browne
Ellen Kendall Baker (Thompson) (1839-1913)
Mother and
Baby--representative work |
The Young Artist--representative work |
San Souci (image
unavailable)--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Ellen Kendall Baker was born in New York and received her training in Paris from Harry Thompson (her future husband) and others. No other information is available online.
Martha Susan Baker (1871-1911)
Portrait
of a Woman (ivory miniature)
--representative work
Self-Portrait 1911--representative work.
It is unclear which work(s) Baker included in
the Illinois Woman’s
Exposition Board Exhibit at the 1893 World's Exposition.
Born into an affluent Indiana family, Martha S. Baker was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and by Charles Woodbury in Maine. Well-known for her miniature portraits as well as her watercolors and oils, Baker died at age 40 from a ruptured appendix.
Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
Self-portrait (1894)--representative work
Study of Two Breton Women, Concameauc France |
Portrait of a Boy (Cecil Kent
Drinker) |
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Last Days of
Infancy
(1885) --exhibited |
Mother and Daughter
(1898)-- |
Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis
Drinker)
[National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian]
(or
here) (1898)--portrait of her brother-in-law,
One
of Beaux' best portraits.
Born in Philadelphia, Cecilia Beaux was raised by maternal relatives after her mother died following childbirth and her French father returned to his native country. She received her art education from artist-relative Catherine Drinker who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (where Beaux later became its first full-time woman teacher) and from Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, and Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian in Paris. By the turn-of-the-century, many considered her one of the best portrait painters in America and she won every major art award possible at that time. Beaux became independently wealthy painting the portraits of prominent people like Theodore Roosevelt's wife and World War I leaders. In 1930 she published her autobiography Background with Figures.Biography/image--The Dreamer.
Biography/image--Self-Portrait
Cecilia Beaux and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts--long biography
Aimée Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices--excellent and detailed biography of Cecilia and her sister and her career.
21 images--from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Ethel Page (Mrs. James Large), 1884, pastel
2 images (Dorothea and Francesca and New England Woman).
12 images
Image--Cynthia Sherwood.
Sita and Sarita.
George Watson Gilder; Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
Biography, plus 7 portraits
Sarah Doyle
Self Portrait --1920.
Mrs Stedman Buttrick (and child).
Ernesta and Ernesta (Child with Nurse) and Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes--at the Metropolitan.
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
Landscape [title unknown]--representative work
Brittany Children (c. 1892)
[National Museum of Women in the Arts]
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893
Exposition
Illinois artist Enella Benedict received her training at the Chicago Institute of Art, the New York Art Students League, and the Académie Julian in Paris. She worked as an art instructor at the Chicago Institute of Art and, in 1893, became associated with Hull-House, Jane Addams' settlement house, where Benedict directed the art program for over forty years.
Brief biography, plus one image (Going Home).
Cityscape
Susan (Hinckley) Bradley
(1851-1929)
Venice (1899)--representative marinescape.
[private collection, Venice, Italy]
Italian
Villa--representative work
Mount
Monadnock, New Hampshire
(image unavailable)--watercolor exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Massachusetts artist Susan H. Bradley studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as in Paris and Rome. In 1879 she married a Boston minister (Leverett Bradley). Evidently her watercolor landscapes, which were exhibited in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and other cities, often featured the New England countryside.
Fidelia Bridges
(1834 - 1924)
Untitled
(watercolor) (c. 1876)
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 Bird Perched upon
a Wild Mullein (1877)
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 Birds by the Shore-- |
 Chickadee and
Thistle (1875)-- |
Birds,
Flowers and Pine Cones--
representative watercolor
Lily Pads and Barn Swallows (1873)--representative work
In an Old Orchard (image
unavailable)--watercolor
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Fidelia Bridges was born in Massachusetts and orphaned by age fifteen. She studied art In Philadelphia under William Trost Richards, a Pre-Raphaelite advocate who greatly influenced her style. After the Civil War, she spent a year studying in Europe, returning to the U.S. and considerable success in 1869. By 1871, she had turned mostly to water-colors. She is known mainly for her delicate flower and bird paintings.Biography/20 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "Biography."
Bird's Nest and Ferns 1863 oil painting. Good image here.
Bird Nest in Cattails
Interior of the House of William A. Brown, 96 1st Place, Brooklyn, New York.
Laura Brown in a Wing Chair 1867.
Birds by the Shore 1873 and Daisies and Thistles 1871.
Wild Roses Among Rye 1874--scroll down the page
Untitled 1876--click on image to enlarge. (This one is different than the untitled painting shown above.)
Sparrows in Flight 1883 watercolor.
Birds Bathing 1900 watercolor.
Apple Blossoms and Sparrows 1873
Apple Blossoms 1900 oil on canvas.
Apple Blossoms and Sparrows in the Rain
Bird illustrations--several
Matilda C. Browne
or Brown (van Wyck)
(1869-1947)
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Old Woman--representative
painting
Vorhees--representative
work |
 Laurel--representative
work |
Floral Bouquet--
representative work
Bucolic Landscape--representative
work |
 The Team--representative work |
An Unwilling Model (c. 1892) (image unavailable)--
[a calf tied to a tree and tugging on it]
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893
Exposition.
Born in New Jersey, Matilda Browne was a child protégé who began her art studies with artist-neighbor Thomas Moran, Kate Greatorex, and other local artists. Later studies were undertaken in Paris at the Académie Julian and in the Netherlands. She exhibited in Paris and Pennsylvania and was the first woman artist asked to join the famous art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Browne also did book illustrations for her writer-husband Frederick Van Wyck. She received an Honorable Mention at the 1893 Exposition.Fruit
Full Bloom
Orange and Yellow Gaillardias 1925
Biography/9 images--click on "Examples of her Work" and on "Biography."
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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 09-09-07
