Lilla Cabot, a descendant not only of…
1889 CE
On this trip abroad, the nineteen-year-old studied at the Académie Julian and at the Académie Colarossi with the English painter Alfred Stevens.
In 1874 she married Thomas Sergeant Perry, a professor of eighteenth-century literature at Harvard University.
The Perrys have three daughters, who become frequent models for their mother's paintings.
The Perry home has become an intellectual salon for such writers as Henry James and William Dean Howells and for Lilla Perry's brother-in-law, artist John LaFarge. (The latter may have urged her to train professionally as a painter).
Starting with private lessons in 1886, she attended the Cowles School of Art in Boston.
Perry is introduced to impressionism at an exhibition in 1889 of over one hundred works by Claude Monet at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris.
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