It’s unusual to come across a successful American painter who doesn’t even merit a stub entry in Wikipedia, but Susan Watkins (1875–1913) had such a tragically brief career that she seems to have been overlooked. In the decade before the start of the First World War in Europe, she was one of the most successful American painters in Paris, and a friend (and relative by marriage) of William Merritt Chase. It’s unusual to come across a successful American painter who doesn’t even merit a stub entry in Wikipedia, but Susan Watkins (1875–1913) had such a tragically brief career that she seems to have been overlooked. In the decade before the start of the First World War in Europe, she was one of the most successful American painters in Paris, and a friend (and relative by marriage) of William Merritt Chase. (https://eclecticlight.co/2017/10/21/brief-candles-susan-watkins-the-woman-in-white/)