Agnes Dean Abbatt

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Portrait of Agnes Dean Abbatt from 1893 by Frances Elizabeth Willard

Agnes Dean Abbatt (born June 23, 1847 in New York City , † January 1, 1917 in Westchester County , New York ) was an American painter .

Life

Agnes Dean Abbatt, daughter of William D. Abbatt, came from a paternal family that immigrated from England to the United States in the late 18th century. On her mother's side, she had French Huguenots as ancestors. Even her grandmother, Mrs. Dean, was a talented amateur artist.

Abbatt received her fine arts lessons first in 1873 at the Cooper Union Art School, where she won a medal for a head of Ajax in her freshman year, and then at the National Academy of Design in New York. After completing her first year of study at the latter institution, her first full-figure drawing was among the works of art selected for an exhibition. Later she was a student of the landscape painter Robert Swain Gifford and James David Smillie for several years .

In particular, Abbatt created beautiful watercolor paintings depicting landscapes and flowers. With the painting In Lobster Lane, Magnolia, Massachusetts , she won a silver medal at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Association exhibition, Boston . She also worked as an illustrator and gave lessons as a drawing teacher. She also modeled flowers and plants out of wax. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society since 1880 and exhibited her work When Autumn Turns the Leaves at an exhibition of this society in 1880 .

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SURNAME Abbatt, Agnes Dean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1917
Place of death Westchester County , New York