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Cecilia Beaux

1855 - 1942

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Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Beaux was trained in Philadelphia and went on to study in Paris where she was influenced by academic artists Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau as well as the work of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Her style was compared to that of John Singer Sargent; at one exhibition, Bernard Berenson joked that her paintings were the best Sargents in the room. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cecilia Beaux is the 1,709th most popular painter (up from 1,755th in 2019), the 7,032nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,883rd in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Painter.

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Among painters, Cecilia Beaux ranks 1,709 out of 2,023. Before her are Lorenz Frølich, Katarina Ivanović, Alex Katz, Henry Salt, Markus Lüpertz, and Andrea Benetti. After her are Ștefan Luchian, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Cornelis Bloemaert, Vadym Meller, Ben Shahn, and Clive Bell.

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Among people born in 1855, Cecilia Beaux ranks 88. Before her are Emil Paur, Frank Hadow, Karl Madsen, Henry Nicholas Ridley, August Spies, and Vittoria Aganoor. After her are Pierre Puiseux, Oskar von Miller, C. V. Boys, Clinton Hart Merriam, Marianne Stokes, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín. Among people deceased in 1942, Cecilia Beaux ranks 194. Before her are Racho Petrov, Yevgeny Petrov, Harald Tammer, Jean Gilbert, Louis Borno, and Kārlis Zāle. After her are Alfred Asikainen, Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, Pranas Dovydaitis, Jüri Jaakson, Gertrud Adelborg, and Clinton Hart Merriam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cecilia Beaux ranks 7,034 out of 20,380. Before her are Christopher Judge (1964), Maura Healey (1971), Alf Clausen (1941), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Eugene Burton Ely (1886), and Joel Stebbins (1878). After her are Donald Wuerl (1940), Sidney Coleman (1937), Zane Grey (1872), Miriam Stevenson (1933), Lewis Powell (1844), and Daniela Ruah (1983).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Cecilia Beaux ranks 84. Before her are Mark Tobey (1890), Childe Hassam (1859), Adolph Gottlieb (1903), John Baldessari (1931), Jim Dine (1935), and Alex Katz (1927). After her are Jenny Holzer (1950), Alice Neel (1900), Ad Reinhardt (1913), Morris Louis (1912), Charles Willson Peale (1741), and Frederic Remington (1861).

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