Self-Portrait (1892)

Lilla Cabot Perry, (January 13, 1848 – February 28, 1933), was one of the first American artists to embrace impressionism during the late 19th century. Image File history File links LillaCabotPerry_SelfPortrait. ... Image File history File links LillaCabotPerry_SelfPortrait. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ...

Born a member of the Boston Brahmin Cabot family, socialite Lilla Cabot married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a professor of literature, with whom she had three daughters. The sister-in-law of artist John La Farge, her interest in painting led her to enroll in the Boston Cowles Art School at the age of 36. One of her teachers encouraged her study art in France, then with her family she moved to Paris where she studied art at Académie Colarossi and Académie Julian. Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston are a blue-blooded class of New Englanders who claim hereditary or cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and originally settled New England. ... The Cabot family was one of the Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston. ... John LaFarge (March 31, 1835–November 14, 1910) was a painter,stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor, Filippo Colarossi. ... The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France. ...

While in Paris, she befriended Claude Monet, and for nine summers beginning in 1889 she and her family lived near Monet's home in Giverny. In addition to purchasing his art, she adopted some of Monet's impressionist style and eventually exhibited her work at the Paris Salon. Claude Monet. ... Giverny (IPA ) is a village and commune of the Eure département, in France. ... Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salons Venuses, 1864 The Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris) is the official art exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris, France. ...

Back in Boston, she exhibited the acquired work of Monet and other impressionists in her home. She also lectured and published essays on impressionism. In 1893, seven of her works were displayed at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... One-third scale replica of The Republic, which once stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The World Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

In the late 1890s, Perry's husband accepted a teaching position in Japan at Tokyo's Keiogijiku University, and for three years there she painted and absorbed Japanese influences into her own works. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...

Throughout her career, Lilla Cabot Perry participated in numerous arts organizations including the Guild of Boston Artists, which opened galleries to promote American painters and sculptors.

In 1933, Lilla Cabot Perry died at her family farm in Hancock, New Hampshire. In 1995, Meredith Martindale, Pamela Moffat, Nancy Mowll Mathews, published the book, Lilla Cabot Perry: An American Impressionist. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hancock is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 1,739 at the 2000 census. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...