Cecilia Beaux

Painter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was influenced by the work of Thomas Eakins and became a portrait painter. After studying in Paris at the Académie Julien (1887), she set up a studio in New York City (1890). Her sensitive academic work, as in Dorothea and Francesca and Mother and Daughter (both 1898), remains popular.

Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received the bulk of her art training at the Académie Julian in Paris. During her time in Paris she studied under painters Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition. Returning to Philadelphia, Miss Beaux obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, and also the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy, and later various other distinctions.