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Helena de Kay Gilder
1911 · Oil on canvas
31 × 21 in. (78.7 × 53.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago