1. Katharine Carl made paintings of notable and royal people in the United States, Europe and Asia.
16 Facts About Katharine Carl
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Katharine Carl spent nine months in China in 1903 painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the St Louis Exposition.
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Katharine Augusta Carl was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 12,1865, the daughter of Francis Augustus Carl, Ph.
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Katharine Carl studied art under Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois and William-Adolphe Bouguereau in Paris, and then exhibited her works in the Paris salons.
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Katharine Carl painted portraits, including those made in 1892 of Mahomet Ali and Prince El Hadj in Algiers.
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Katharine Carl made portraits of Paul S Reinsch and Sir Richard Dame.
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Katharine Carl exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Katharine Carl was a member of the Societe des Artistes Francais of Paris, the International Jury of Fine Arts, and the International Jury of Applied Arts of the St Louis Exposition.
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Katharine Carl was contacted by Sarah Pike Conger, the wife of American Ambassador Edwin H Conger with an offer to come to China in the summer of 1903 to paint a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the Chinese exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
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Katharine Carl spent a total of nine months in China and painted four portraits of the Empress Dowager, later recording her memories as the only western foreigner to live within the precincts of the Chinese imperial court in its last days in a book that was published in 1905.
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Katharine Carl stayed there under the provision that she did not share information about the Forbidden City.
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Katharine Carl wrote of her time in China and provided a unique and intimate assessment of the Empress Dowager Cixi in her book With the Empress Dowager of China.
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Katharine Carl apparently stayed at Hart's house at some point and was described by him as "very breezy - quite a tornado".
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Katharine Carl lived in New York City at 51 Washington Square and had a studio in the city.
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Katharine Carl died December 7,1938, at Lenox Hill Hospital of burns she received when taking a bath at her apartment.
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Katharine Carl was portrayed by Sylvia in the 2006 Chinese television series Princess Der Ling.