Cecilia Beaux
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Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilde
Beaux, c. 1888
Mrs. Robert Abbe (Catherine Amory Bennett), 1888–89, now on display at the Brooklyn Museum
New England Woman. Portrait of Mrs. Jedidiah H. Richards (Beaux's cousin Julia Leavitt), 1895, now on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia
Twilight Confidences, 1888
Cecil Kent Drinker
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Cecil Kent Drinker was an American physiologist, educator, and occupational hygiene expert. He was a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 to 1935, and served as Dean from 1935 to
Cecilia Beaux
…Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. In her will she left a Duncan Phyfe rosewood secretaire made for her father to her cherished nephew Cecil Kent Drinker, a Harvard University physician whom she had painted as a young boy and who later founded the Harvard School of Public Health. Beaux was included in…
Portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker as a child by Cecilia Beaux