Anna richards brewster biography
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Anna Richards Brewster
American painter
For the actress, see Anna Brewster.
Anna Richards Brewster (1870 – August 13, 1952) was an American painter.
Biography
She was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were the poet and playwright Anna Matlack and the landscape painter William Trost Richards.
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One of her brothers, Theodore William Richards, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914.
She studied at Cowles Art School in Boston, where she won a First Scholarship in Ladies Life Classes in 1888, as well as with William Merritt Chase and John LaFarge at the Art Students League of New York in 1890.[2] In 1890, she won the Dodge Prize awarded by the National Academy for the best picture painted by an American woman of any age.
The winning painting, titled An Interlude to Chopin, has since been lost.[3] She traveled to Europe periodically between 1890 and 1895, painting alongside her father in England, Ireland and