Artist Cecelia Beaux was born #onthisday in 1855. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a student of Thomas Eakins. Upon completing PAFA’s program, she traveled to France to continue her art studies. Returning to the United States, she pursued her career in the arts and became a leading figure on the national stage of American culture, known primarily as a society portraitist. Much honored and celebrated, she also enjoyed a twenty-year career as an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was the first female instructor. -- Image: Portrait of Hannah Rose Hoffman Lee, 1893, by Cecilia Beaux (Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Cross, 1998) #WoodmereArt #WomenAtWoodmere #CeciliaBeaux