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Dorothea and Francesca, oil on canvas by Cecilia Beaux, 1898; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Dorothea and Francesca

painting by Beaux

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  • In Cecilia Beaux

    By 1898, when she completed Dorothea and Francesca, a compositionally complex double portrait, Beaux had proved herself the rival of John Singer Sargent in the art of fashionable portraiture. Beaux was influenced by the French Impressionists, but her work was not imitative of any master. After moving to New York…

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