Elizabeth "Lizzie" Howard Bartol (March 13, 1842 - January 26, 1927) was an accomplished American artist known for her work in portraiture, still life, and landscapes.Queer Places:
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Howard Bartol (March 13, 1842 - January 26, 1927) was an accomplished American artist known for her work in portraiture, still life, and landscapes.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent Unitarian minister Cyrus Augustus Bartol, she moved in elite intellectual and artistic circles.
She studied at the Boston School of Design under noted masters including William Morris Hunt, William Rimmer, and Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman. Her work was exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Boston Art Club and the National Academy of Design.
Today, she is recognized as part of the "Boston women artists" cohort (active 1870–1940). Her contributions are noted in historical archives and museum collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which documented her career in the exhibition and catalog A Studio of Her Own.
The connection between Elizabeth Howard Bartol and the renowned sculptor Anne Whitney is a subject of historical interest regarding 19th-century women's social and creative bonds.
In the early stages of their careers, Whitney—who was nearly two decades older than Bartol—used the younger artist as a model. Notably, scholars have identified that Whitney used Bartol as a model for her work Africa (1864), an allegorical sculpture depicting emancipation.
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