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Bertha Hallowell Vaughan
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| "Bertha Hallowell Vaughan," oil on canvas, by the American artist Cecilia Beaux. 58 in. x 38 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Samuel Vaughan and Mrs. Langdon P. Marvin to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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American figure and portrait painter , 1855-1942
American painter. She began her career painting on porcelain and producing lithographs and portrait drawings. She studied with Catharine Ann Drinker (1871), Francis Adolf van der Wielen (1872-3) and Camille Piton (1879), at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1877-8), and privately with William Sartain (1881-3). Under Sartain's guidance, she learnt to paint, producing her first major portrait, the Last Days of Infancy
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