Cecile de Wentworth

Cecile de Wentworth (born ?, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 28, 1933, Nice, France) was an American painter who established a reputation in Europe for her portraits of important personages. Cecile Smith was educated in convent schools. In 1886 she went to Paris, where she studied painting with Alexandre Cabanel and Édouard Detaille. Within the next three years she married Josiah W. Wentworth, and it was as Mme C.E. Wentworth that she first exhibited...