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Birth
1865 (Mobile, Alabama)
Death
1951 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
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society portrait, landscape, illustrator
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Portrait and landscape painter Louise Lyons Heustis was born in 1865 in Mobile, Alabama, of a well-educated, creative, and socially prominent family. She drew while yet a child. Early educated at home, Heustis later attended a girl's boarding school in Pass Christian, Mississippi, receiving her secondary education there. At the age of fifteen, the young artist-to-be lived with her grandparents in Philadelphia, taking a life class for two sessions at the Philadelphia Art Academy.
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