Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Cecilia Jamison became a portrait
painter, writer of children's books and romance novels, and of
scholarly articles for national periodicals. She
married George Hamilton in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1860s,
and then went alone for three years to study portrait painting in Rome,
Italy.
Returning to the United States, she set up studios in New York City and
Boston, earning a living with her portrait commissions. (showing 500 of 1198 characters). |
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