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1871 Siegfriend's Bridge, Pennsylvania - 1953. Known for: Landscape, portrait, still life and miniature painting.
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. She exhibited at the Academy throughout her lifetime; there she was awarded the Toppan Prize (1913); the Cresson Traveling Fellowship (1912); and the Mary L. Smith Prize (1917, 1934). Washington... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. She exhibited at the Academy throughout her lifetime; there she was awarded the Toppan Prize (1913); the Cresson Traveling Fellowship (1912); and the Mary L. Smith Prize (1917, 1934). Washington also exhibited widely across the country including what is now the Springfield Museum, Utah (1927); the Corc... Read full biography