In the summer of 1888, Beaux went to the fishing village of Concarneau, in the far west of Brittany, together with two other American students. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, via Wikimedia Commons. Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), Landscape with Farm Building, Concarneau, France (1888), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Those academies were popular with American students, although Bouguereau in particular was notorious in representing the old Salon style which was being displaced by Impressionism. In Paris, Beaux trained at the Académies Julian and Colarossi, mainly with Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Although she could command similar fees for her portraits to those of Eakins, Beaux recognised her need for further study, and in 1887 went to Paris, accompanied by her cousin May Whitlock. John Wheeler Leavitt, née Cecilia Kent) (1885). John Wheeler Leavitt (the artist’s grandmother Mrs.
She still used some family members as models, though, as in her portrait of Mrs. Wikimedia Commons.īeaux quickly established herself as a successful portraitist. John Wheeler Leavitt, née Cecilia Kent) (1885), oil on canvas, further details not known. Her The Last Days of Infancy (Les Derniers Jours d’Enfance) (1883-85) is a portrait of her sister (Etta Beaux Drinker) and her son Henry, which won the Mary Smith Prize in 1885, and was exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1887. Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), The Last Days of Infancy (1883-85), oil on canvas, further details not known. She started studying with William Sartain, a friend of Eakins, in 1881, preferring his more gentle style and his belief in phrenology. She won the Mary Smith Prize at the Academy’s exhibitions in 1885, 1887, 1891, and 1892.
She was introduced to lithography in 1873 and started undertaking illustration work, but in her quest for art began to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, when Eakins started voluntarily assisting its then director, Christian Schussele.
When only 18, she became drawing teacher at a private school, taking over there from Catherine Ann Drinker. She started art lessons with a relative, Catherine Ann Drinker, then with Francis Adolf Van der Wielen. She was raised by her grandmother and aunts, in the same city, and her father returned to his native France. Although she was one of his most famous and successful students, Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942) could perhaps foresee the trouble that was coming, and in her words “a curious instinct of self-preservation kept me outside the magic circle.”Įliza Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a prosperous family, but her mother died shortly afterwards. Thomas Eakins was a very different teacher from William Merritt Chase.
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