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|  Henrietta Beaumont (1881-1968)
The artist was born in York, England in 1881 (possibly February 19, 1881). As a young woman, she studied art with H. E. Locke. Henrietta later married Ernest Beaumont who was also an artist. Ernest Beaumont supported his family by serving in the Yorkshire police where he attained the rank of inspector. Upon his retirement from the police force in 1907, Ernest emigrated with his family to the United States.
The Beaumonts subsequently purchased a home in the U.S. which they shared with Ernest’s younger brother, Arthur. Arthur James Beaumont was a well known impressionist from the prominent St. Ives School of artists. Records list the Beaumonts’ New York City address as 112 Rhine Avenue in Staten Island.
In the U.S., Henrietta continued her artistic training with Abraham J. Bogdanove, William L. Stevens, and Aldro T. Hibbard. She was a member of the prestigious National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and of the Staten Island Institute of the Arts & Sciences. Henrietta Beaumont was listed in Who's Who in American Art of 1940 and in Marlor’s The Salons of America.
In January 1933, Ernest Beaumont passed away in his home as a result of illness. At the time of his death from cancer, Ernest and Henrietta had five children (not four as reported in his obituary in the New York Times): two boys, Frederick and Arthur, and three girls, Frances, Marjorie and Ethel. After the death of her husband, Henrietta painted fewer landscape paintings, preferring floral still lives in watercolor. During most of this time, she lived with two of her married children who had remained in Staten Island and also spent extended periods of time visiting another daughter and her family who lived in Montreal, Canada.
Her work received favorable attention from art critics. The following is a quote from the Utica Daily Press dated January 11, 1934:
“The art gallery of the Utica Public Library is offering an exhibition by four well known women: Henrietta Beaumont, Adeline A. Wigand, Carolyn C. Mase and Emma L. R. White. Notable among the works representing Mrs. Beaumont are the water colors depicting A Sunny Street – Rockport , Mass. and Perrine House – Staten Island, the latter being especially substantial and dignified. An Old Lane is colorful and inviting. Mrs. Beaumont is a member of the National Women Painters. Both oil and water colors afford her suitable mediums for expression.”
Like her husband and brother-in-law, Henrietta Beaumont painted scenes of New England and New York. Her painting entitled Rockport Wharf – Gloucester, Mass. was exhibited with the NAWA. Another painting, The Breakwater - Minot, Mass., was exhibited at the Staten Island Institute of the Arts & Sciences in 1953. At the time, the exhibition label reported her address as 195 Morrison Ave in Staten Island.
Online art resources note the year of Henrietta Beaumont’s death as 1971. However, census records report the following information for a “Henrietta Beaumont” of Rockport, Mass.: (a) date of birth - February 19, 1881 and (b) date of death - February 1, 1968 at age 86. Additionally, one of her granddaughters states: "She died from cancer in 1968 at age 86 in Rockport, Massachusetts where she had recently moved with her daughter Frances and Frances' husband. At the time of her death she was survived by her five children."
[Note: A recent New England auction listed one of the artist’s works as part of the collection of a “Mr. William A. Beaumont.” William Beaumont's father, Arthur Beaumont, left in his will a large collection of his parents and uncles's art in William's name to the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Other art pieces were later sold at a gallery near Chapel Hill presumably by family members of his second wife.]
Sources: Who's Who in American Art (1940), The Salons of America by Clark S. Marlor, obituary for Ernest Beaumont published in the New York Times – January 4, 1933, The South on Paper: Line, Color and Light (2000) by Estill Curtis Pennington & James C. Kelly, U.S. census records, article in the Utica Daily Press dated January 11, 1934, and other online auction & exhibition record
Additional information provided by Betty Richards, granddaughter of the artist.
Compiled and submitted by T. Kasper – New York.
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