Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919); American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard. Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Lendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist. She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris. In 1868 she attended the first Ladies Life Class at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker. Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own.[ Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, The Bargain and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner. Her self portrait and another painting, Little Cosette, are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961. They were part of the exhibition Women and Biography in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong, Mickayel Thurin, Edith Neff, Barbara Bullock, Gertrude Fisher-Fishman, Mary Cassatt... Her most well-known work, Hagar and Ishmael was exhibited at the French Salon in 1888, and was then bought by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Waugh] Overshadowed in both life and death by her half-brother Frederick Judd Waugh and her father Samuel Bell, there’s little written information to be had on this American artist. And, as often happens when information is scarce, incorrect information gets repeated and spreads across the web. [http://www.reusableart.com/tag/ida-waugh] undefined

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