 Esther Baldwin is primarily known as Esther Baldwin Williams
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Portrait of Salinda Allen Cole,
The Artist's Grandmother
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Esther Baldwin Williams (1867-1964)
Born Esther Mabel Baldwin, Dec. 11, 1867, she became a friend and patron of Maurice Prendergast. They often painted together, sometimes in her studio at 92 Mt Vernon Street in Boston, sometimes in Annisquam Massachusetts at her summer house, and sometimes en plein aire. Because of this, one of her paintings was a part of his collection and was at first incorrectly attributed to him, entitled Annie Sargent Jewett (see website of the Archives of American Art- AAA).
In her book Charles Abbot Baldwin & His Family, the artist's daughter Nadia Williams states that Esther Baldwin studied in Paris with her cousin Adelaide Cole in 1877 and 1891 (like Adelaide Cole, probably with Jean-Paul Laurens and Carolus Duran). According to the author, Esther Baldwin writes in the diary about her (their?) decision to change studies from her original traditional studio teacher to a notorious womanizing portrait painter, which judging from his paintings, Duran could have been accused of being. Apparently, some of their social group were quite shocked that young women would study with this person, but both Adelaide and Esther Baldwin were interested in portraiture, and he was a portraitist. The author also notes that at some point Esther Baldwin Williams studied at Cowles Art School in Boston in a studio headed by Denis Miller Bunker (according to the Wikipedia bio it must have been between 1885 and 1889).
She painted very little after her children, including the prolific painter Esther Williams (1907-1969), were born. There are few examples of her work extant, mostly in the possession of the family.
Information provided by Professor Julia Williams Robinson, the artist's granddaughter.
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