Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth (1856–1942)
Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth (1856–1942)
American painter. Born Anna Elizabeth Klumpke in 1856; died 1942; dau. of Dorothea Tolle Klumpke and John Gerard Klumpke (San Francisco real-estate magnate); attended Académie Julian, 1883–84; studied with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre in Paris; sister of Augusta Klumpke (1859–1927), Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942), and Matilda and Julia Klumpke.
Won many prizes for her portraits and landscapes; became a companion of mentor Rosa Bonheur (1898); after Bonheur's death the following year, inherited Bonheur's studio-estate at By and wrote a biography, Rosa Bonheur, sa vie, son oeuvre (1908); also painted portraits of Bonheur and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
See also autobiography Memoirs of an Artist (1940); and Women in World History.
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