The following is from Guy Sbar, M.D., Toms River, New Jersey:
The artist was born in Hartford, Connecticut circa 1839. She studied painting with Professor Gladwin and Seth Wells Cheney (1810-1856). Porter furthered her studies in Hartford with William R. Wheeler (1832-1894) and also went to Paris where she was taught by Ange Tissier (1814-1876) around the year 1873.
In 1875 Mme. Porter was living in Paris at the Blvd. des Batignolles and in that same year she exhibited "Un Enfant" (showing 500 of 1283 characters). |
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