Ellen Day Hale (Feb. 11, 1855 – Febr. 11, 1940); American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hale wrote the book History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Albrecht Dürer and mentored the next generation of New England female artists, paving the way for widespread acceptance of female artists. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into an elite Boston Brahmin family. Her father was author and orator Edward Everett Hale, and her mother was Emily Baldwin Perkins. Although the Hale family was well respected among the Boston upper class, they were not exceptionally wealthy....From a young age, Hale was raised within an artistic atmosphere, as her mother encouraged her interest in art, and her aunt, watercolorist Susan Hale, most likely provided her first artistic instruction. ...Hale played a major role as a mentor for a younger generation of aspiring women artists. She encouraged and gave concrete advice to the next group of New England female artists, cautioning them "against being too influenced by any one of their instructions...a fault common among artists of our sex." Hale not only taught classes for female artists... but also hosted informal gatherings where like-minded women could discuss art. Included in this group was Hale's sister-in-law, Lilian Westcott Hale. Lilian and many other female artists benefited greatly from Hale's support and guidance. Hale died in Brookline, MA, aged 85. Her works were shown in the latter part of the 20th century and early 21st century, in group exhibitions and in solo exhibitions of her work from 1989-90 and in 2013's "Wanderer: Travel Prints by Ellen Day Hale." Hale's legacy is not only in her paintings and etchings but also in the acceptance she helped gain for women artists. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Day_Hale) undefined

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