Biography from Ivyhill Gallery:
| Elizabeth Bonsall was born in Philadelphia in 1861. Her father,
Amos Bonsall was on the Elisha Kane Arctic trip of 1853. He later
served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. Her
sister Mary Bonsall was also an artist,
Miss Elizabeth Bonsall
studied at the following art institutions: the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins; later with illustrator Howard Pyle;
and in Paris with Raphael Collin at the Academie Julian and Gustav
Coutois at the Academie Colarossi.
She was a member of the
Plastic Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Print Club and the
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
She
exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Art Club, the
National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, where she won the Mary Smith Prize (best painting by a
Philadelphia woman artist) in 1897. The painting was acquired by
the Pennsylvania Academy by the Temple Fund. Other works by her
are in the Chester County Historical Society and the Delaware Art
Museum.
From her exhibition records, she painted in both watercolor and oil with subject matter of genre, still life and landscape.
She passed away in 1956.
Sources:
Falk – Who Was Who in American Art.
Unidentied newspaper article – Amos Bonsall obituary.
Falk Exhibition Series.
Membership List - the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1920.
Copyright Roy Wood, Jr. 2009
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