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Louise Abbema

Louise Abbéma was born at Étampes, Seine-et-Oise, France on the 30th October 1859 and was a painter, engraver, sculptor, and woman of letters. She was a pupil of Charles Chaplin 1825-1891, Jean-Jacques Henner 1829-1905 and Carlus-Duran 1837-1917 and whilst still very young, in 1876 had a great success with her portrait of Sarah Bernhardt. She exhibited regularly until 1926 at the Salon of French Artists. There she gained an honorable mention of decorative panels in 1881, a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in 1900 and the legion of Honor medal in 1906. She left a body of work including many watercolors, pastels and engravings plus numerous portraits, decorative panels and paintings of flowers. She also worked with the magazines 'Gazette of Fine Arts' and 'Art' and illustrated 'La Mer' by René Maizeroy. Her most important portraits were of Sarah Bernhardt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Don Pedro - Emperor of Brazil, Carlus-Duran , Henner and Charles Garnier. Her principal paintings were 'The Seasons', 1883, 'Morning in April', 'in the Flowers', 'Winter', 'The Toilette of Truth', 'Flora' 1913.

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