Cecilia Beaux Biography | Oil Painting Reproductions

At age 16, Cecilia Beaux started art classes with a relative, Catherine Ann Drinker, an expert artist who had her own private studio and customers. She later studied for a long time with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen. Given the predisposition of the Victorian age, female understudies were denied direct study in anatomy and couldn't go to drawing classes with live nude models, who were frequently whores until 10 years after the fact.

Cecilia Beaux went attended Sartain's classes for two years, at that point leased her own studio and imparted it to a gathering of women artists who contracted live models and proceeded without a teacher. After the gathering disbanded, Beaux set about vigorously to demonstrate her creative capacities.

At 32, in spite of her reasonable accomplishment in Philadelphia, Beaux concluded that despite everything she still needed to improve her abilities. Her European training did influence her palette, notwithstanding, and she embraced white and paler hue in her oil painting, especially in delineating female subjects, an approach supported by John Singer Sargent also.

Back in America in 1889, Cecilia Beaux continued to paint portraits in an excellent way. In settling on her choice to commit herself to art, she likewise thought it was best not to wed, and in picking male companionship she chose men who might not undermine her profession.

The five years that followed were profoundly beneficial, bringing about more than forty portraits. In 1890 she displayed at the Paris Exposition, got in 1893 the gold award from the Philadelphia Art Club, and furthermore the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy of Design.

In 1895 Cecilia Beaux became the first female to have a teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she taught portrait drawing and painting for the following twenty years. Cecelia Beaux viewed herself as "New Woman", a nineteenth-century woman who explored educational and career opportunities that had for the most part been denied to women.

By 1900 the interest for Beaux's work brought customers from Washington, D.C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City; it was there she spent the winters while summering in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Cecilia Beaux was disabled in the wake of breaking her hip while strolling in Paris in 1924. With her well-being impeded, her work yield dwindled for the rest of her life.

Art Movement History: Naturalism.
Artists Influencing Cecilia Beaux: Catherine Ann Drinker, Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, John Sartain.
She Traveled To France.
Artist's Biography compiled by Albert L. Mansour at The World's Artist, with text adapted from Wikipedia.