Background
Elizabeth Annie Beach was born in Ottawa in 1866.
Elizabeth Annie Beach was born in Ottawa in 1866.
She was a niece of the well-known Canadian painter Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith. Her husband had been born in Syracuse, New York, in 1859 of English parents who moved to when he was an infant. After the marriage the couple made an extended study trip to Europe, then returned to where they found a studio.
Their studio in Toronto became a meeting place for artists.
They spent 1916 living on their yacht in New York Harbor, then moved to an apartment in Washington Heights, Manhattan. She often exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy shows, at the Spring Exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal, and in galleries across the United States of America. After 1927 Farquhar had a studio in Riverton, New Hampshire.
Elizabeth Beach McGillivray Knowles died on 4 October 1928 in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
She became an executive member of the Heliconian Club. In 1919 Elizabeth was elected a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors based in New New York Elizabeth Knowles became a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters, the Washington Watercolor Club, the American Watercolor Society and the League of American Pen Women.