# Alice Beckington > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Beckington > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Beckington.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Beckington > Source revision: 1336749679 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American painter}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth_date|1868|07|30}} | birth_place = St. Charles, Missouri | death_date = {{death_date and age|1942|01|04|1868|07|30}} | death_place = | occupation = Artist | years_active = | spouse = }} '''Alice Beckington''' (July 30, 1868 – January 4, 1942) was an American painter. Born in [St. Charles](/source/St._Charles%2C_Missouri), [Missouri](/source/Missouri), Beckington studied art at the [Art Students League of New York](/source/Art_Students_League_of_New_York), where she was a pupil of [J. Carroll Beckwith](/source/J._Carroll_Beckwith);{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}} she also studied for a month with [Kenyon Cox](/source/Kenyon_Cox). She next traveled to Paris for study at the [Académie Julian](/source/Acad%C3%A9mie_Julian), where her instructors included [Jules Joseph Lefebvre](/source/Jules_Joseph_Lefebvre) and [Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant](/source/Jean-Joseph_Benjamin-Constant), and taking lessons with [Charles Lasar](/source/Charles_Lasar) at his studio.{{cite book|author-link2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author3=Lori Zabar|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC&pg=PA244|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9|pages=244–}}{{Cite book|title=Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|year=2008|isbn=9781849723978}} She had exhibitions at Paris Salons and Paris Expositions through 1900, including the Salon du Champ de Mars.{{Cite news|title=American Exhibitors|date=1894|work=The New York Herald (European Edition) (Paris, France)}} Upon returning to the United States, Beckington began exhibiting work in venues including the [Pan-American Exposition](/source/Pan-American_Exposition), where she received an honorable mention, [Louisiana Purchase Exposition](/source/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition), where she received a bronze medal, and Poland Spring Exhibition.{{Cite news|title=Art Notes|date=6 April 1905|work=Trenton Sunday Advertiser}}{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000288297|title=Catalogue of the exhibition of fine arts.|publisher=Buffalo: David Gray, Publishers|year=1901|pages=38}} She was a founder member of the [American Society of Miniature Painters](/source/American_Society_of_Miniature_Painters), of which organization she served as president for a number of years, and from 1905 to 1916 she taught miniature painting at the Art Students League. She was also a member, during her career, of the [American Federation of Arts](/source/American_Federation_of_Arts) and the [Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters](/source/Pennsylvania_Society_of_Miniature_Painters). Beckington was among the women artists, including [Theodora W. Thayer](/source/Theodora_Thayer), Thomas Meteyard, sisters [Matilda Lewis](/source/Matilda_Lewis) and [Josephine Lewis](/source/Josephine_Lewis), and [Mabel Stewart](/source/Mabel_Stewart) who began summering at [Scituate](/source/Scituate%2C_Massachusetts), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts) around the turn of the century, founding a small artistic colony.{{Cite book|title=Adventures of Yesterday|last=Irwin|first=Inez Haynes|publisher=Unpublished|location=Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University|pages=528–531}} During this time she also spent time with notable feminist author [Inez Haynes Irwin](/source/Inez_Haynes_Irwin), and she and Thayer both painted portraits of Irwin that were exhibited in the [Knoedler](/source/Knoedler) Gallery. In 1935, she was awarded the medal of honor by the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters. A portrait by Beckington of her pupil [Rosina Cox Boardman](/source/Rosina_Cox_Boardman) is currently in the collection of the [Smithsonian American Art Museum](/source/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum).{{cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1702|title=Rosina Cox Boardman by Alice Beckington / American Art|access-date=29 January 2017}} Three portraits, including one of her mother, are owned by the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).{{cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search|title=Collection|access-date=29 January 2017}} ==Gallery== File:Miss T. MET ap43.63.jpg|Portrait of Miss T., 1898 File:Richard Vaughn Lewis MET DP219126.jpg|Portrait of Richard Vaughn Lewis. c. 1910 File:Mrs. Beckington MET DP162099.jpg|Portrait of [Mrs. Beckington](/source/Mrs._Beckington_(Alice_Beckington)) (the artist's mother), 1913 ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beckington, Alice}} Category:1868 births Category:1942 deaths Category:American portrait miniaturists Category:19th-century American painters Category:19th-century American women painters Category:20th-century American painters Category:20th-century American women painters Category:People from St. Charles, Missouri Category:Painters from Missouri Category:Art Students League of New York alumni Category:Académie Julian alumni Category:Art Students League of New York faculty Category:American women academics {{US-painter-1860s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alice Beckington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Beckington) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Beckington?action=history)). 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