She was awarded a gold medal for lifetime achievement by the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and honoured by Eleanor Roosevelt as "the American woman who had made the greatest contribution to the culture of the world". Like her instructor William Sartain, she believed there was a connection between physical characteristics and behavioral traits.īeaux became the first woman teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She could flatter her subjects without artifice, and showed great insight into character. Her style, however, invited comparisons with John Singer Sargent at one exhibition, Bernard Berenson joked that her paintings were the best Sargents in the room. In turn, she resisted impressionism and cubism, remaining a strongly individual figurative artist. Trained in Philadelphia, she went on to study in Paris, strongly influenced by two classical painters Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who avoided avant-garde movements. Cecilia Beaux: Dorothea and Francesca Artist artist QS:P170,Q466677 Title English: Dorothea and Francesca Alternative title(s): English: The Dancing Lesson Object type painting Genre portrait Date 1898 Medium oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955 P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 Dimensions height: 203.5 cm (80. Beaux’s father returned to France, leaving Beaux and her older sister, Aime, to be raised by. Born to Cecilia Kent Leavitt and Jean-Adolphe Beaux, the artist’s early life was shaped by her mother’s death, just 12 days after her birth. Cecilia Beaux was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Cecilia Beaux, Self-Portrait, 1894, National Academy Museum, New York (67-P) Cecilia Beaux.
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