The Bruce Child
Decorator Cecilia Beaux American
Beaux was the most celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century woman painter of figures working in the United States. She achieved her first commercial success with naturalistic portraits on porcelain, such as this example, a popular art form of the period pursued by both professional women artists and amateurs. Having trained in Philadelphia for just one month with the French ceramicist Camille Piton—an experience that strengthened Beaux’s technical precision and sensitivity to color—she quickly obtained a reputation for this work, which she noted "parents nearly wept over."
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