Lucy Lee-Robbins

Lucy Lee-Robbins (1865–1943) was an expatriate American painter living in France. She is known for her portraits of female nudes, an unusual subject for women painters in the late 19th century.[1] She was the first female associate member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.[2]

Lucy Lee-Robbins
Portrait of Lucy Lee-Robbins
by Carolus-Duran, 1884
Born(1865-06-24)24 June 1865
New York
Died28 July 1943(1943-07-28) (aged 78)
Paris, France
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Spouse
Hendrik-George van Rinkhuyzen
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(m. 1895⁠–⁠1922)​

Biography

Lee-Robbins was born on 24 June 1865[2] in New York.[3] She and her family moved to Paris in the 1880s. In 1884 she joined a women's atelier run by Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner. The same year her portrait was painted by Carolus-Duran.[2]

In 1887 Lee-Robbins debuted at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.[4] She also exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs.[2]

Starting in 1889 she exhibited with the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in 1890 was appointed the first female associate member of the Societe.[2]

Lee-Robbins exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

In 1895 she married fellow painter Hendrik-George van Rinkhuyzen.[2][5]

Lee-Robbins died on 28 July 1943 in Paris, France. Because her final years were spent in Nazi-occupied Paris, the disposition of her paintings is not well documented.[2]

  • Portrait of woman in black hat, 1890
    Portrait of woman in black hat, 1890
  • Young woman in front of her mirror, 1891
    Young woman in front of her mirror, 1891

References
  1. Summerlin, Amanda. "Baring Themselves: Representations of the Female Nude by American Women Artists, 1881-1930". American University Digital Research Archive. American University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. Fortune, Brandon Brame (April 1998). ""Not above Reproach": The Career of Lucy Lee-Robbins". American Art. 12 (1): 41–65. doi:10.1086/424311. S2CID 191619134.
  3. "Lee Robbins, Lucy". Oxford index. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. "Portrait of Lucy Lee-Robbins, 1884". The Chrysler Collection. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  5. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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