biography
pronunciation:
[boh]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1855–1942)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was influenced by the work of Thomas Eakins and became a portrait painter. After studying in Paris at the Académie Julien (1887), she set up a studio in New York City (1890). Her sensitive academic work, as in Dorothea and Francesca and Mother and Daughter (both 1898), remains popular. |
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