Helena Arsène Darmesteter

Born: 1854

Death: 1923

Biography:

Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, born Héléna Hartog (1854 – 1923) was a British portrait painter. Darmesteter was born in London as the daughter of a French school teacher and the editor of the first Jewish women’s periodical, Marion Hartog Moss. Her parents ran a French boarding school where Héléna learned to speak French. She later studied painting in ...