Painting ID:: 82984
Dorothea and Francesca a.k.a. The Dancing Lesson Date 1898
Medium Oil on canvas
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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 Dorothea and Francesca a.k.a. The Dancing Lesson Date 1898
Medium Oil on canvas
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