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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
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Keywords (58)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Rockport, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •American Society of Miniature Painters
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters
- •Philadelphia Art Alliance
- •Plastic Club, Philadelphia
- •Salons of America
Art Teacher
- •Fred Wagner
- •Hugh Breckenridge
- •Robert Henri
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •New York School of Art, Chase School, Student
- •Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Student
- •Philadelphia Museum School/College of Art, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Cresson Traveling Scholarship
- •Mary Smith Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- •Toppan Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Louise and Alan Sellars Collection
Added Description
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
- •Snowscene Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Copley Society of Boston
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •Royal Academy of the Arts, England
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts