Impressionist Portrait of a Girl by Emily B. Waite
Item Details
An impressionist oil on canvas by by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). Signed in the lower left, a fine exterior portrait of a girl and lamb, in a bright palette.
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She began her formal artistic training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied from 1908 through 1910 under Philip Leslie Hale and Francis Luis Mora. In 1910 she received the Paige Traveling Scholarship and traveled extensively for two years throughout France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. In 1959 she returned to Europe, primarily to study fresco painting in Northern Italy. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C.; the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others. For more information about the artist, see the links below. For additional works by Waite, please refer to the link below for EBTH’s landmark sale from the Worcester Historical Museum, #16BOS080.
Dimensions
measures in frame; sight size measures 38.5" W x 29.75" H.
Item #
16BOS020-322
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