Lilian Westcott Hale

Place: Bridgeport

Born: 1880

Death: 1963

Biography:

Lilian Westcott Hale was an American Impressionist painter born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1880. She was active in the first three decades of the twentieth century and is often classified as an American Impressionist with a regional style combining the painterliness of Impressionism with a more conservative approach to figure painting and a marked respect for the traditions of Western art history. Her preferred subject matter included portraits, picturesque landscapes, and young women posing in well-appointed interiors. She was influenced by major figures such as John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, and Jan Vermeer. Hale died in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1963.