Irene E. Parmelee
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Nathaniel Jocelyn
Nathaniel Jocelyn was an American painter.He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a clockmaker and engraver. He trained as a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting...
. She subsequently enrolled in art school at Yale, which had just begun admitting women. Parmelee later traveled to Paris and attended the Académie Julian
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...
from 1881 to 1884 where she studied with Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury was a French painter.Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso...
, Pierre Auguste Cot
Pierre Auguste Cot
Pierre Auguste Cot was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.-Biography:He was born in Bédarieux, Hérault and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going to Paris. He studied under Leon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
, and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. She was a career portrait artist and operated a studio in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1875-1929.
Parmelee is also cited under the alternate spelling of Parmely. Her works can be found in the collections at Yale, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, and the Maine State Museum.
External links
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Inventories Catalog - Smithsonian American Art Museum - Search "Parmelee"
- Portrait of Chester W. Chapin by I.E. Parmelee