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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Anne Clay McDowell, Granddaughter of Henry Clay
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Painter, printmaker, and teacher Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was considered a star pupil of William Merritt Chase and Cecilia Beaux, when she studied with them from 1900 to 1904 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She apparently had inherited skilled-artist genes from her great-great grandfather, the legendary Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale.
Hergesheimer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1873 (Peale had named one of his daughters Sophonisba after the (showing 500 of 3072 characters). |
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