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An example of work by Maria J C A'Becket
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Portland, Maine at an unknown date, likely in the 1840s, Maria A'Becket was a landscape painter, primarily a watercolorist, influenced by the French Barbizon School.
She had early art training with her father, Charles Beckett, a Portland landscape and genre painter who did railroad travel books including ones about the White Mountains. In 1874, John Neal wrote that Charles E. Beckett "has left a daughter with some of the properties he lacked, for she really is a fine colorist and her drawings and paintings are full of promise."
In 1865, she studied with Homer Dodge Martin in New Hampshire, and from 1875 to 1878, with William Morris Hunt in Boston. On a trip to France, she spent a summer painting with Charles Daubigny and was much influenced by the Barbizon painters at Pont Aven. During this time, she changed her name to A'Becket to have a name that was more dramatic.
She also did illustrations for travel guides to the White Mountains, published by her uncle, Samuel E. Beckett.
She exhibited at the Boston Art Club in April 1875, at the National Academy of Design in 1883 and 1888 when she lived in New York City. From 1880 to 1884, she exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts but lived in Boston. She also exhibited at the Maine Charitable Mechanic Exhibition of 1860 and 1878 and the New York Women's Art Club in 1890.
The 1884 Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts, 15th Exhibition lists "Sketch of Oaks" ($15). Her other known works include:
"The Flume, NH"
"Woodland Scene," owned by Maine Historical Society
Pencil sketches, illustrations for book by her father, Charles E. Beckett
"Mt. Washington"
"Berlin Falls"
"Carter Mountain"
"Connecticut River from Stratford, NY" pencil sketches
"The Flume, New Hampshire" owned by Richard Durnin of New Brunswick, NJ
She died in New York City.
Source: Paul Sternberg, "Paintings by American Women" |
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