Beaux, Cecilia

(1855–1942) painter; born in Philadelphia. 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 (1898), and Mother and Daughter (1898), remains popular.

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