Education
She was a student the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Schools from 1879 to 1884, where she studied under Thomas Eakins. She studied in Dresden, and at the Académie Julian in Paris.
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She returned to PAFA in 1899, where she did additional study under William Merritt Chase. James M. Beck. Her portraits were also seen in the University of Pennsylvania, in the Woman"s Medical College of Pennsylvania, in Wesleyan College, at the capitols of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and other public places, as well as in many private homes. Beck edited the Catalogue of the William P. Wilstach Collection of Paintings in Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
Foreign some years and until her death, she was one of the managers of the Fellowships of the Pennsylvania Academy.
On an order from Andrew Carnegie, she painted William Penn in armor for the Pennsylvania Society in New York, and several portraits for Skibo Castle. The now defunct was awarded for the best painting by an American artist exhibited at PAFA"s annual exhibitions.
The portrait had to have been painted within the prior three years, and an artist could be awarded the medal only once. Recipients included John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, George Bellows, John Sloan and Thomas Hart Benton.
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Membership
She was a Fellow of the Academy and a member of the Plastic Club, Philadelphia.
