Lydia Eastwick Longacre

Place: New York City

Born: 1870

Death: 1951

Biography:

Lydia Eastwick Longacre (September 1, 1870 – June 19, 1951) was an American painter known especially for her portrait miniatures. Born in New York City, Longacre was the granddaughter of James Barton Longacre and the daughter of Reverend Andrew Longacre, both of whom had successfully pursued careers as miniature painters. She took lessons at the Art Students League of New York. Among her instructors was William Merritt Chase and Harry Siddons Mowbray; she also traveled to Paris, where she studied with James Abbott McNeill Whistler at the Académie Carmen. Her sister Breta also became a painter. She exhibited with the American Society of Miniature Painters, whose Levantia White Boardman Award for best miniature she received in 1949, and with the Old Lyme Art Association in Connecticut. She died in Old Lyme, and is buried in the family plot at Philadelphia's Woodlands Cemetery.