Florence MacKubin (or Mackubin) (c. 1857 – 1918) was an American portrait painter in miniature, pastel, and oil colors. She painted portraits of prominent people in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as several famous copies of portraits, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, the London Academy, and the National Academy, New York.[1]
Florence MacKubin | |
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Self-portrait | |
| Born | c. 1857 |
| Died | February 2, 1918 (aged 60) |
| Resting place | St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland 38°58′54.69″N 76°29′49.73″W / 38.9818583°N 76.4971472°W |
| Nationality | American, born in Italy |
| Known for | Painting |
Early life
editFlorence MacKubin was born in about 1857[a] in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, while her parents, Charles Nicholas and Ellen Marietta (Fay) MacKubin, were spending a year abroad. Her father died in 1863, after which her mother returned to Europe with the children.[2]
MacKubin made a portrait of her grandfather, George Mackubin, who had been the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the State of Maryland.[5]
Education
editMacKubin studied drawing in Florence, Italy. She then studied at Les Ruches, a Protestant school at Fontainbleau under M. Lainé.[2] In Munich she studied under Professor Herterich. She studied under Louis Deschamps in oil and Julius Rolshoven in pastel, and Mlle. Jeanne Devina in miniature painting in Paris.[1][2]
Career
editThe Board of Public Works of Maryland appointed her to make copies of portraits of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. For the Board she also painted a copy of Warwick Castle's famous Van Dyke portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria,[7] for whom Maryland is named.[1][8]
MacKubin made paintings of society women in England and in the United States cities of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, and St. Louis. In 12 years she received commissions for 360 miniature portraits.[2] The people whose portraits she painted include Joel Chandler Harris, Basil Gildersleeve, Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Justice Horace Gray, Senator George F. Hoar, and Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard.[1][8]
MacKubin began exhibiting her works and winning awards in the United States, London and Paris beginning in 1893.[2] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[9] In 1897 she won the bronze medal and diploma at the Tennessee Exposition.[10] Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition.[1][8] She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and made portraits of the Marchioness of Bath, the Countess of Warwick and others in England.[10]
She was vice president of the Baltimore Watercolor Club.[10]
MacKubin resided in Baltimore for most of her life and kept a studio and summer home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.[1][8]
Personal life
editMacKubin was a member of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America.[11]
She died February 2, 1918.[12] Richard H. Spencer of the Maryland Historical Society said of her:
- In the death of Miss Florence MacKubin, this Society has lost a valued and esteemed member, the State of Maryland a loyal and devoted daughter and the world of art a conscientious and meritorious disciple.[12]
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f Clement, Clara Erskine (1904). "Mackubin, Florence". Women in the Fine Arts. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 219–220.
- ^ a b c d e f g "MacKubin, Florence". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: 293. 1916.
- ^ "Florence MacKubin (3 years old, born Florence, Italy), 4th Ward of St. Paul, Minnesota", 1860 U.S. census, population schedule., Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, p. 240
- ^ John William Leonard; Albert Nelson Marquis (1901). Who's who in America. Marquis Who's Who. p. 734.
- ^ George Mackubin. Archives of the State of Maryland. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
- ^ Jane W. McWilliams (3 May 2011). Annapolis, City on the Severn: A History. JHU Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8018-9659-0.
- ^ "MacKubin, Florence". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 727.
- ^ a b c d "Florence Mackubin, Portrait Painter" (PDF). NY Times. 3 Feb 1918.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ a b c Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 219.
- ^ Charles Henry Browning (1900). Some "colonial Dames" of Royal Descent: Pedigrees Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some Members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, and of the Order of the Crown. p. 61.
- ^ a b William Hand Browne; Louis Henry Dielman (1918). Maryland Historical Magazine. Maryland Historical Society. p. 183.
External links
edit Media related to Florence MacKubin at Wikimedia Commons