11 Facts About Sara Page

Sara Wells Page was a British artist, portrait and figurative painter, of the Victorian and Edwardian period.

Sara Page was born in 1855 in Moxley, Staffordshire, the fourth of nine children to a successful timber merchant, Samuel Page and Sara Wells Page, whose father Thomas Wells was a wealthy local Ironmaster.

Between 1884 and 1891, Page studied drawing at Wolverhampton School of Art, and then studied the works of Renaissance masters in Italy.

Sara Page arrived to Paris around 1892 and studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury, and Gabriel Ferrier of the Academie Julian.

Sara Page exhibited at the 1893 Societe des Artistes Francais exhibition.

Sara Page exhibited at Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which from 1892 through 1896 included portraits of members of her extended family.

Sara Page took additional lessons from the well-established artists and leading exponents of the academic style Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois who lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and had their studio at 73, Boulevard Bineau.

From about 1909, Sara Page studied with the miniature painter Gabrielle Debillemont-Chardon, the President of the Societe des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs and of the Societe des Miniaturistes et des Arts Precieux.

Sara Page exhibited at the Royal Academy, Walker Art Gallery, and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

Sara Page is seen as a diligent artist who experimented with artistic techniques, followed established academic tradition, and was an exponent of the academic style in England.

Sara Page did not develop a prominent professional career, but she was an example of a woman from the late 19th- and early 20th-century who sought and acquired education, self-expression and an independent career.