Cornelia W. Conant (born ca. 1840–1850) was an American painter and writer.
She was on the membership committee of the Brooklyn Arts Club in 1894 and showed works at the Brooklyn Art Association and the
National Academy of Design. She was also a writer who wrote about a study trip to Belgium in a piece for ''Harper's Magazine'', featuring the school run by the painter
Pierre Édouard Frère
Pierre Édouard Frère (10 January 1819, Paris – 23 May 1886 Écouen), was a French genre painter.
Biography
Frère studied under Paul Delaroche, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. Among his c ...
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Her painting ''The End of the Story'' was included in the 1905 book ''
Women Painters of the World''.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
Gallery
Cornelia W. Conant - The End of the Story.jpg, ''The End of the Story''
References
Footnotes
Sources
An Art Student in Ecouen The Harpers Monthly, February 1885, pp. 388–398
19th-century births
Year of death missing
19th-century American painters
19th-century American women painters
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