Henriette Charlotte Chastaigner (Mrs. Nathaniel Broughton) – (Henrietta De Beaulieu Dering Johnston) ◄ Попередній наступне ►

Artist: Henrietta De Beaulieu Dering Johnston

Дата: 1711

Музей: Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, United States)

техніка: Paper

Henrietta Johnston is known as the first professional female artist in America and the first pastelist. A Huguenot by descent, Johnston and her family fled France for England in the late seventeenth century. She married Robert Dering, a member of the English gentry with appointments and property in Ireland. After his death between 1698 and 1702, she married Gideon Johnston who became the rector of Saint Philip