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An example of work by Anna Margaretta Archambault
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Miniaturist portrait painter Anna Margaretta Archambault was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1856. Her work may be found in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Engineering School, Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Independence Hall, all in Philadelphia; United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; and the Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio.
She was awarded prizes in 1922 and 1925 by the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, and in 1941 by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She exhibited in London at the Royal Miniature Society.
A teacher and writer, as well as painter, Archambault was a director at the Philadelphia School of Miniature Painting, as well as author of "Art, Architecture, and Historic Interest in Pennsylvania."
Archambault's own art studies in Philadelphia included the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and with Chardon and Debillemont there.
Anna Margaretta Archambault lived to be one hundred years old, dying in Philadelphia in 1956.
Source: Jules and Nancy Heller, "North American Women Artists of the 20th Century"
Serving as Director of the Philadelphia School of Miniature Painting, Anna Archambault was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and the Academie Julian in Paris. |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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