Elizabeth "Lizzie" Otis Lyman Boott was an American artist.
Background
Boott was born on April 13, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of the classical music composer, Francis Boott and Elizabeth (née Lyman) Boott. Her mother, who died when she was 18 months old, was the eldest daughter of a Boston Brahmin, George Lyman and his first wife, who was the daughter of Harrison Gray Otis.
Career
Following their wedding, they lived at the Villa Castellani with her father. Their son, Frank Boott Duveneck was born on December 18, 1886. Boott lived in Italy, where she had long resided in Bellosguardo, overlooking Florence.
She died there on March 22, 1888, of pneumonia.
Boott was a model for characters in two Henry James novels, Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl. Boott studied for several years with William Morris Hunt in Boston and Thomas Couture of Villiers-le-Belorussian in Paris.
Her first show was held in Boston at J. Eastman Chase"s
1883: American Water Color Society
1883: Boston Art Club
1883: National Academy of Design
1883: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1883: Philadelphia Society of Artists
1884: Doll & Richards – Boston
1886: Paris Salon.