Elizabeth "Lizzie" Otis Lyman Boott was an American painter of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.
11 Facts About Elizabeth Boott
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Elizabeth Boott was the daughter of the classical music composer Francis Boott and Elizabeth Boott.
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Elizabeth Boott married Frank Duveneck, her former teacher, and lived in the Villa Castellini in Florence.
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Elizabeth Boott was the daughter of the composer Francis Boott and Elizabeth Boott.
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Elizabeth Boott enrolled at the William Morris Hunt class for women in Boston in 1869, and studied with Thomas Couture outside Paris for three consecutive summer.
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Elizabeth Boott spent the summer of 1879 studying with Frank Duveneck, an artist she and her father admired, in Munich.
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Elizabeth Boott work was shown in multiple exhibitions throughout the United States in the early 1880s.
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Elizabeth Boott became an engineer and married Josephine Whitney, the daughter of Henry M Whitney.
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Elizabeth Boott lived later in Paris with her husband and son.
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Elizabeth Boott died there on March 22,1888, of pneumonia.
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Elizabeth Boott encouraged her teacher Frank Duveneck to move to Florence, with the idea of having him teach a class of women artists - instruction of a sort that was just then coming into vogue.