Artist Search
   
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 

 Cecilia E Smith Wentworth  (1853 - 1933)

Research : Cecilia E Smith Wentworth
 

Summary

Examples of her work

 
 

Quick facts

Exhibits - current  
 

Biography*

Museums

 
 

Book references

Magazine references pre-2007  
 

Discussion board

Signature Examples  
 
Marketplace : Cecilia E Smith Wentworth
  For sale ads

Auction results*

 
  Wanted ads Auctions upcoming for her*  
 

Dealers

Auction sales graphs*  
 

What's my art worth?

Magazine ads pre-1998*  
 

Market Alert - Free

 
Lived/Active: New York / France      Known for: portrait, genre-religious
Back to Previous Page

Login for full access
 
View AskART Services










*may require subscription

Cecile Smith (Marquise) De Wentworth is primarily known as Cecilia E Smith Wentworth

Available for Cecilia E Smith Wentworth:

Quick facts (Styles, locations, mediums, teachers, subjects, geography, etc.) (Cecilia Wentworth)

yes

Biographical information (Cecilia Wentworth)

yes

Book references (Cecilia Wentworth)

13

Museum references (Cecilia Wentworth)

3

Dealers (Cecilia Wentworth)

1

Auction records - upcoming / past (Cecilia Wentworth)

2

Auction high record price (Cecilia Wentworth)

2/15/1998

Analysis of auction sales (Cecilia Wentworth)

no

Discussion board entries (Cecilia Wentworth)

0

Image examples of works (Cecilia Wentworth)

1

Please send me Alert Updates for Cecilia E Smith Wentworth (free)
What is an alert list?

Ad Code: 3
AskART Artist
from Auction House Records.
Mother and Child
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
Cecile Smith de Wentworth, a prominent academic portrait painter, was far better known in France than in her native America. Born in New York City to a Catholic family, she attended the Sacred Heart Convent and then went to Paris to study in the studio of the academic painter, Alexandre Cabanel. Sometime in the next few years she married Josiah Winslow Wentworth.

In 1889, "Mme. C. E. Wentworth" appeared for the first time in the exhibition catalogue of the Paris Salon. At the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, she won a bronze medal for her portrait of Pope Leo XIII. The Pope decorated her with the title of Grand Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, and conferred on her the papal title of Marchesa. For the next thirty years, the Marquise de Wentworth exhibited portraits and religious subjects at the Paris Salon, winning many honors. In 1901, she was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and she also became an officier de linstruction publique.

Her best-known work is a portrait of Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican Museum in Rome; another of General John J. Pershing is now in the Versailles Museum. She also painted William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII) of England. The Luxembourg Museum bought her painting "La Foi" (shown in the 1893 Salon) where it is now in the new Paris museum of nineteenth century art, the Musee dOrsay. She was particularly noted for the alert, spontaneous expression of her sitters.

Although she maintained a studio at 15 Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris throughout most of her career, the Marquise de Wentworth remained an American citizen. Impoverished after her husbands death in 1931, she moved to Nice on the Riviera. When she died in the Nice municipal hospital, the American embassy in Paris sent money to cover her funeral expenses.


(Information for the biography above is based on writings from the book, "American Women Artists", by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein.)


** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at registrar@AskART.com.


Cecile De Wentworth is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915

  go to top home | site map | site terms | AskART services & subscriptions | contact | about us
  copyright © 2000-2012 AskART all rights reserved ® AskART and Artists' Bluebook are registered trademarks

  A |  B |  C |  D-E |  F-G |  H |  I-K |  L |  M |  N-P |  Q-R |  S |  T-V |  W-Z  
  frequently searched artists 1, 2, more...  
  art appraisals, art for sale, auction records, misc artists