Biography from AskART:
| Born in San Francisco, California, Ellen Rand became a successful
portrait artist who moved with her family to New York in 1884 after her
father died and she was nine years old.
She studied drawing in
Boston with Dennis Bunker, attended the Art Students League as a
teenager, and also attended the Chase Shinnecock School of Art. She had
a studio on Washington Square, and completed many portrait commissions,
about 800 during her career. In her early 20s, she had successful
one-person shows including at Boston's Copley Hall where only James
Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet had had such exhibits.
She married William Rand and living in Salisbury, Connecticut raised three sons. She kept a studio in New York City.
Source:
Paul Sternberg, Sr., "Art by American Women"
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Ellen Rand is also mentioned in these AskART essays: San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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