American Sisters By Thomas Sully (1783-1872)

.Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Coleman Sisters. 1844

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Mary and Emily McEuen 1823

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Walsh Sisters.
Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Leland Sisters 1830

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Blanche And Rosalie. 1842.

American Women by William Henry Snyder (1829–1910)

William Henry Snyder (1829–1910) Quiet Time
William Henry Snyder (1829–1910) Darning by the Hearth
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19th-Century American Women by William Page (1811-1885)

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William Page (1811-1885) Daughter of William Page 1838
William Page (1811-1885) Charlotte Cushman 1853
William Page (1811–1885) Mary Page, Daughter of Artist William Page
William Page (1811-1885) Sarah Augusta Page 1843.

John Singer Sargent's (1856-1925) Elegant American Ladies with Japonisme Fans

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Etta Durham

The painter of these images of well-to-do women holding fans influenced by the Japonisme style, John Singer Sargent, was one of the American artists who went to study in Paris. Sargent did not paint many trendy compositions, but his fans fit into part of the Asian influence of the late 19th century.

Sargent went to study in Paris, because it was the place to be for any serious art student who could afford to travel there. After the American Civil War, Paris was a bustling cosmopolitan city & the capital of the western art world. Art students went to Paris to enroll in one of the many art schools there, seeking to polish their academic education. More established artists used Paris as a proving ground, leveraging exhibiting in its important international exhibitions to establish their artistic reputations.

A few made Paris their home, becoming part of a significant American expatriate community in the French capital. As the novelist Henry James reported of the "irresistible city" in an 1887 article, "it sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when today we look for American art we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a good deal of Paris in it."
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Ian Hamilton (Jean Muir)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Joseph Chamberlain
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Thomas Wodehouse Legh
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Hamilton McKown Twombly (Florence Adele Vanderbilt)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Cecil Wade John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Countess Clary Aldringen Threse Kinsky
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Mahlon Day Sands (Mary Hartpeace)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Ada Rehan
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Frederick Barnard
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Henry White John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs William Playfair.

The Last Rose of Summer by American Artists

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Four Children at North Haven

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Girls in the Garden

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) My Daughters

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Eleanor
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Sunlight

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Sisters 1899
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Karl Anderson (1874-1956) The Apple Gatherers 1912
Seymour Joseph Guy (1824-1910) Picking Apples
Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Hilltop

Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) My Daughter Elizabeth
Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Summer

Robert Lewis Reid (1862 – 1929) A Summer Girl

Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Sunlight

Thomas P. Anshutz (1851-1912) Margaret Perot. .

American Artists Paint Reading Women

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Reader
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Jesse Steele Reading
George Cochran Lambdin (1830 – 1896) Girl Reading
Karl Albert Buehr (1866 – 1952) News from Home
Walter MacEwen (1860 – 1943) Girl Standing with Book
William Worcester Churchill (1858 – 1926) The Chinese Vase
William Chadwick (1879 – 1962) The Front Parlor at the Florence Griswold House
Lillian Mathilde Genth (1876 – 1953) Portrait
Arvid Nyholm (1866 – 1927) Reading by the Greenhouse
Karl Albert Buehr (1866 – 1952) Repose
William Worcester Churchill (1858 – 1926) Leisure
Daniel Huntington (1816 – 1906) Study in a Wood
Lillian Mathilde Genth (1876 – 1953) A Pleasant Afternoon
Susan Ricker Knox (1874 – 1959) Reading in the Garden
William Morris Hunt (1824 – 1879) Girl Reading
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862 – 1938) Reading by a Window 1903.