Elizabeth Jane Gardner
(October 4, 1837 - January 28, 1922) |
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portraiture, secular, historical, mythological narratives Art Work
| Name: |
Elizabeth Jane Gardner |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
October 4, 1837 |
| Death: |
January 28, 1922 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
portraiture, secular, historical, mythological narratives |
| Medium: |
oil painting |
| Method: |
oil painting |
| Style: |
Realism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was born in 1837 and died in 1922. She was among the first wave of Americans who sought art training in Paris after the Civil War. Gardner's paintings were accepted into 25 of the Paris Salons and at the Exposition Universelle, where she won a bronze medal in 1889. The artist was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and educated at the Lasell Female Seminary, Gardner received the minimal training in the arts typical of well bred women. Gardner decided to join the artistic migration to Paris in 1864 to study contemporary and old master paintings.Religious, historical, and mythological subject matter dominated Gardner's career. She acknowledged that her work was strongly influenced by Bouguereau, to whom she became engaged in 1879. As an ambitious painter, she made her own way by producing works in a monumental style and of a subject matter that was most often associated with male artists. As a late 19th century woman artist engaged to a better established painter, Gardner also stands out for her stated desire to maintain her freedom to attain the success for which she strived. |
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