Cornelia W. Conant
Bornca. 1840-1850
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Writing

Cornelia W. Conant (born ca. 1840–1850) was an American painter and writer.

She was on the membership committee of the Brooklyn Arts Club in 1894 and showed works at the Brooklyn Art Association and the National Academy of Design.[1][2] She was also a writer who wrote about a study trip to Belgium in a piece for Harper's Magazine, featuring the school run by the painter Pierre Édouard Frère.[3]

Her painting The End of the Story was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[4]

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Footnotes

  1. Sixth Yearbook of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1894
  2. Cornelia W. Conant on Ask Art
  3. "An Art Student in Ecouen" with pictures of Edouard Frere's art school, published in the February 1885 edition of Harper's Monthly
  4. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

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