Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts - Artist Info

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Elizabeth Wentworth-Roberts
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    Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts 1871-1927 (b. Phila PA, d. Concord MA)

    Mainly a landscape and seascape painter, Elizabeth Roberts was the only child of wealthy Philadelphia parents. She began her art education in 1888 with Henry Rankin Poore and Elisabeth Fern Bonsall at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she won the Mary Smith Prize in 1889. That same year she moved to Paris to study at the Academie Julian, principally under Jules Lefebvre. She remained in France for 10 years.

    Roberts returned to the U.S. in 1898, and with her companion Grace Keyes, divided her time between New York and New England, finally settling in Con...

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