Rosalie Lorraine Gill

Rosalie Lorraine Gill
Portrait of Miss Rosalie Gill
by William Merritt Chase 1886
Born1867 (1867)
Elmira, New York, US
DiedJanuary 1898 (aged 30–31)
Paris, France
Alma materArt Students League of New York
Known forPainting

Rosalie Lorraine Gill (1867–1898) was an American painter who studied and worked in Paris. A student of William Merritt Chase and Alfred Stevens, she exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Biography

Gill was born in 1867 in Elmira, New York. Little is known about her early life. In 1874, she and her father, a wealthy businessman named Owen A. Gill Jr., moved to New York City, where her father joined a tea importing company. At the age of 12, Rosalie began studying art at the Art Students League of New York and with William Merritt Chase.[1] In the late 1880s she moved to Paris, where she studied with Alfred Stevens.[2]

Gill exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in 1884,[3] at the Paris Salon in 1888,[4] and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889.[5] In 1893, she exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[2] In the 1880s and 1890s, she traveled frequently between Paris, New York, and Baltimore, exhibiting her work in all three cities. She married René Lara in 1897 and held the title Comtesse de Chaban.[6]

Gill died in Paris on January 26, 1898, at the age of 31.[7]

Gill's art includes the following paintings:

The New Model depicted William Merritt Chase's studio in New York.

  • Lady with a Fan (1884)
  • The New Model (1884)
  • Japanese Woman

References

  1. ^ "Gill, Rosalie Lorraine (Comtesse de Chalon)". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00074001. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1989. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8109-3703-1.
  4. ^ Johnston, Sona K. (1983). American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art. pp. 68–69, 70. ISBN 978-0-912298-53-5.
  5. ^ "Rosalie Lorraine Gill". AskArt. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ Pisano, Ronald G.; Chase, William Merritt; Baker, D. Frederick (2006). William Merritt Chase: Portraits in oil. Yale University Press. p. 67. ISBN 0300110219.
  7. ^ "Rosalie Lorraine Gill". CLARA. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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