Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was one of the finest American portrait painters of the late 19th Century. Like John Singer Sargent she was both a technical master and a sensitive human observer. By 1902 Beaux was recognized as one of the top portrait painters in America. She was awarded full membership in the male-dominated National Academy. ...In the late 1880s Beaux traveled to Europe and studied at the Academie Julian and the Colarrosi Academie under Bouguereau, Fleury, Dagnan-Bouveret, and Courtois. She returned to America and became the first full-time female faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she taught drawing, painting and portraiture for some 20 years. ...She was also a pretty good landscape painter when she put her mind to it. Landscape With Farm Building and Half Tide Annisquam River are really solid, reminiscent of Camille Pissarro. (https://artoutthewazoo.com/2012/07/13/cecilia-beaux/)