The Chapins led a somewhat peripatetic existence living at various times in New York City, Massachusetts, South Africa and London. A Louisiana native, she had grown up on the family plantation, Belmont, and was introduced to her future husband, Robert Chapin, through her brother who knew him from Yale. note: This work, painted in Tryingham, Massachusetts in 1901, depicts Adele Chapin née Le Bourgeois and her daughter, Christina, who had been born in October of the previous year. 'Cecilia Beaux And The Art Of Portraiture' by Tara Leigh Tappert, published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, pg.
31 (illustrated) literature: 'Background With Figures - Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux' published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1930, pg. exhibited: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 'Cecilia Beaux And The Art Of Portraiture' October 6, 1995-January 26, 1996, Cat.
Chapin was the Great Grandmother of the present owner.
Signed with initials 'CB' center right, oil paint and pencil traces on canvas 36 x 28 in.
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