Ellen Day Hale

Ellen Day Hale
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 1885, (28 1/2" x 39") Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Born(1855-02-11)February 11, 1855
Worcester, Massachusetts
DiedFebruary 11, 1940(1940-02-11) (aged 85)
Brookline, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationAcadémie Julian
Known forPainting, printmaking

Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855 – February 11, 1940)[1] was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hale wrote the book History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Albrecht Dürer and mentored the next generation of New England female artists, paving the way for widespread acceptance of female artists.

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