Lilla Cabot Perry
Date Born: January 13, 1848
Date Died: February 28, 1933
Birth Country:
United States
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- Oldest of eight children
- Her father was a distinguished surgeon
- Friends of the family included: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Russell Lowell
- She married Thomas Sergeant Perry and had three daughters: Margaret (1876), Edith (1880), and Alice (1884).
- The inspiration for much of her artwork was her children
- In 1897, her husband received a teaching position in Japan & she began to fuse western and eastern traditions
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