Ellen Day Hale Lilies. Private collection. Painting - oil on canvas. Height: 66.04 cm (26 in.), Width: 38.1 cm (15 in.).
cjr Lilies. Private collection. 1855-1940
was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, her family was involved in the arts, her father Edward Everett Hale was an author, her great-aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. She studied art under Boston painter William Morris Hunt and helped raise her 7 brothers and sisters. Later she studied in at the Academie Julien in Paris.
