Portraitist of Gilded Age society, painting with sweeping, confident strokes.
Intimate
Monumental
Self-Representation
Fun fact
She was the first woman to hold a full-time teaching post at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
How she made it
Bravura oil portraiture: a fluid, thinned lay-in followed by broad loaded brushwork on the head, backgrounds kept sketchy so the sitter's face carries all the finish. She painted standing, stepping back constantly to judge the whole.
