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"I can paint as well as any man." - Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
That confidence was hard won. Although born into a prosperous family who could easily pay for her tuition at Academie Julian, Roberts's desire to become a painter was opposed by her mother. Roberts persevered and one of her paintings was accepted by the Paris Salon in 1892. She became estranged from her father following his interference in her career. Following a serious illness and an operation in1926, Roberts was hospitalized for depression at Massachusetts General Hospital. It was there that she hung herself on March 12, 1927.
(http://thebluelantern.blogspot.nl/2016/06/intertidal-life-guzzle-in-sight.html)
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (June 10, 1871 – March 12, 1927); American painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia, PA, Paris, and Concord, MA. She established the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she had studied and won the Mary Smith Prize. She also studied in Paris at Académie Julian and Florence. In Massachusetts, Roberts founded and funded the Concord Art Association.
...She knew that she wanted to paint when she was 15 years of age. Her mother, Sarah Cazenova Roberts, wanted her to be a stylish young woman in Philadelphia and New York upper class society.
....She had a fast, expressive style like John Singer Sargent and was known for her seascape and landscape paintings. Her works have been sold for more than $44,000.
...Roberts was ordered not to work as a result of an illness that required surgery, which left her despondent. In 1926, she was diagnosed with psychoneurosis and admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital. She hung herself on March 12, 1927, the same day her father died, at her home in Concord. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wentworth_Roberts) undefined